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.

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 20, 2009 - "When I began to have access to patients’ electronic medical records. It made me a much better doctor," wrote David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, in a publicly distributed message.

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.


In the pre-clinicial trial Expanding the Versatility of Cardiac PET/CT: Feasibility of Delayed Contrast Enhancement CT for Infarct Detection in a Porcine Model (Holz1, A., et al)*, researchers found that infarct size can be measured accurately and reproducibly using cardiac PET/CT with delayed CT-enhancement.

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 19, 2009 - Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors, is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for women in a Clinical Therapeutics article in the Aug. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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.

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