September 1, 2011 – The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association), a collaboration of 42 EHR supplier companies, in responding to the Center for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) proposed rules for the Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS) and the hospital outpatient prospective payment system for 2012, asked CMS administrator Donald M. Berwick, M.D., to reconsider its proposal to require the submission of patient-level data as it pilots electronic submissions of clinical quality measures (CQMs) based on the burden it would impose on provider organizations and other considerations. 

August 30, 2011 — Today's state-of-the-art diagnostics in digestive tract imaging, including capsule endoscopy, is the topic at MEDICA 2011, the world’s largest medical trade fair to be held in Düsseldorf, Germany Nov. 16-19, 2011. More than 4,500 exhibitors from 60 countries will be present.

August 29, 2011 – BK Medical will showcase its innovative Flex Focus 700 ultrasound system and BK Power Pack at the 13th World Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 26-29, 2011.