August 24, 2009 - Breast MRI allows physicians to evaluate suspicious lesions using a variety of variables and computer-aided kinetic information can help significantly in distinguishing benign from malignant suspicious breast lesions on MRI, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR).

August 24, 2009 – The nuclear reactor in Petten, The Netherlands, which supplies medical isotopes, is up and running again after a scheduled maintenance.

Covidien (COV.N) expects to begin receiving material from the reactor in Petten this weekend, the company said in a letter to hospital clients dated August 18 and posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website on Thursday.

August 24, 2009 - The Image Gently campaign has developed online teaching materials and checklists to help interventional radiology providers use the lowest dose necessary to perform interventional procedures on children.

August 21, 2009 - The final definition of the “meaningful use” of electronic health records that will be used to determine eligibility for incentive payments under the economic stimulus program will not be available until the middle or end of spring 2010, stated David Blumenthal, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology, in a press conference held Aug. 20.

Moffitt Cancer Center engaged in the GE Healthcare Performance Solutions team to improve work and enable additional capacity.
The project enabled the center to identify operating room (OR) workflow issues, including predictable scheduling, on-time starts, and increasing room turnover.

August 21, 2009 - A study published in the August 2009 edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology found that non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients could be more accurately staged at diagnosis by taking into account the level of visceral pleura invasion (VPI). VPI is the extension of a tumor beyond the elastic layer of the visceral pleura.

August 21, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare, a diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions provider, announced today that it has hired Jos Nyns (b. 1959) as its new Chief Financial Officer. 

Mr. Nyns has over 25 years of financial management experience, of which five years as CFO of the RealDolmen Group. 

August 20, 2009 - The White House announced today it will spend $1.2 billion in federal grants for electronic health records (EHR) systems, marking the first wave of funding in a series of HITECH priority grant programs, laying the groundwork for meaningful use of EHRs.

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 - McKesson updated its InterQual Molecular Diagnostics Criteria to cover more than 380 tests, including a new category of pharmacogenomic tests that determine if an individual will be responsive to a drug based on genetic makeup.

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