My 85-year-old mother volunteers as an intake person at a free clinic, but her high school Spanish is long gone. This week, she found herself on duty without an interpreter and was amazed when a much younger volunteer pulled her smart phone from her pocket, spoke a question into it, and out came the question in Spanish.  The app performed the inverse function for the Spanish-speaking gentleman, and voilà, the registration ensued.

During the first quarter of 2015, seven million more people had health insurance compared with the same time period last year, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.

A modest majority of physicians working in positions of executive leadership, 55 percent, believe there’s “more good than bad” in the Affordable Care Act. 

AMA President Robert M. Wah, M.D. issued the following statement in response to today's HHS announcement regarding new goals for transitioning Medicare's payment system.

The Image Gently® campaign has developed online educational and scientific materials to help dental professionals optimize radiation dose used in imaging exams performed on children. Image Gently has also produced downloadable materials to help parents ask more informed questions of their dental providers whenever scans are recommended for their children.

Stephen J. Ubl, president and CEO of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), issued the following statement today following the release of the federal government’s fiscal year 2014 omnibus appropriations legislation: “AdvaMed applauds the FY 2014 appropriations omnibus legislation for restoring $85 million in industry-provided user fees that were lost to FDA in FY 2013 due to the sequester."

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today applauded Congressional leaders for agreeing on a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package that will fund the federal government through the end of September 2014, increase funding for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and restore $85 million in funding lost last year due to the sequestration of FDA user fees.

Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wcfn7t/global) has announced the addition of the "Global Electrophysiology (EP) Ablation Catheters - Market Growth Analysis, 2009-2015" report to their offering.