August 20, 2009 - Taxing job-based health benefits would heavily penalize insured, working families, taxing them at a rate of 140 times more than Wall Street execs, reports a new study by two Harvard researchers published in New England Journal of Medicine, August 19, 2009.

August 20., 2009 - National Diagnostic Imaging (NDI) is providing a teleradiology Locums solution for those entities whose needs can be met without onsite support.

August 19, 2009 - Sentinelle Medical will focus on the Aegis with Bright 2.0 Imaging Analysis Software in booth 16 at the Breast Imaging Conference, held in Glendale, Ariz., August 15-17, 2009.

August 19, 2009 - Actual utilization rates for radiation therapy equipment used in freestanding cancer treatment centers are closer to the current assumed rate of 50 percent, not 90 percent as proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for 2010.

August 18, 2009 – Medical conferencing solutions provider MultiSense Communications and medical imaging specialist Barco recently demonstrated the clinical benefits of today's telemedicine systems during a live open-heart surgery operation at the Imperial College Hospital in Hammersmith, U.K.

August 18, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare’s SOMATOM Emotion CT scanner was ranked highest among 16-slice CT systems, according to a recent report from market research firm KLAS.*

August 18, 2009 - Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) represents a safe, noninvasive modality that frequently helps guide patient management, according to early findings from a multicenter registry published online Aug. 11 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

August 17, 2009 – NovaRad is extending its installations around the globe, adding Guam Radiology Consultants (GRC) in Tamuning, Guam, which signed a multi-year contract for both NovaPACS and NovaRIS.

August 17, 2009 - Elekta has received a multiple order of six radiation therapy systems from the Cancer Institute of the State of São Paulo. The order encompasses two Elekta Synergy Platform, three Elekta Synergy and one Elekta Axesse. Elekta will make the institute its training and product development center in Latin America.