The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the next steps for providers who are using electronic health record (EHR) technology and receiving incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid.  These proposed rules, from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), will govern Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs.

February 24, 2012 — TeraRecon Inc. highlighted the capability of its flagship iNtuition enterprise image management solution to image-enable the electronic medical record (EMR) at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), held Feb. 21-23, 2012, at the Las Vegas Sands Expo.

February 24, 2012 — IRadimed Corp. announced the launch of the iMAGOX 2460 nonmagnetic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compatible SpO2 monitor with Masimo SET technology inside.

February 24, 2012 — Invendo Medical announced today that the company received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company's new C20 colonoscopy system including the SC20 single-use colonoscope.

February 24, 2012 — A new imaging efficiency measure developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce computed tomography (CT) scans in emergency departments does not accurately determine which hospitals are performing CT scans inappropriately, according to a new study published online Annals of Emergency Medicine (“Assessment of Medicare's Imaging Efficiency Measure for Emergency Department Patients with Atraumatic Headache”).

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