The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, agreed to pay nearly $2.3 million to settle Medicare fraud allegations, the U.S. attorney in Miami announced. The settlement is part of a decade-old investigation into the payment of physicians at teaching hospitals. The PATH investigation looks at how teaching hospitals bill for the services of resident and intern physicians and the faculty physicians who supervise them.

Verizon Communications issued a release stating that chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg has committed the company's support to four goals proposed by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt to improve health care quality and reduce costs through increased use of technology and providing more information to consumers.

Coastal Healthcare Consulting Inc. a provider of information technology consulting services for healthcare facilities, has received the "Best in KLAS" designation for the
Supportive Clinical Implementation services market segment for the second consecutive year.

Baxter Healthcare has received conditional approval from the FDA for the corrective action plan it developed for COLEAGUE infusion pumps — this comes three months following FDA’s seizure of COLLEAGUE pumps at the company’s northern Illinois warehouses over design and user interface issues.

Bluesocket, Inc.’s BlueSecure WLAN solution suite has passed Vocera interoperability testing for Voice over WLANs (VoWLAN).

Siemens Medical Solutions announced today that it will begin clinical trials on what could be a breakthrough imaging biomarker that the company hopes could identify Alzheimer’s disease prior to the onset of noticeable symptoms.

Medipattern Corp. and MammoSolutions Inc. have announced an agreement to distribute Medipattern's B-CAD ultrasound CAD product in the southwestern United States. B-CAD is the only commercially available breast ultrasound CAD product in the industry.

AMICAS, Inc. announced today that it has executed a resale agreement with peerVue as part of its plan to enable the simple selection of images and rapid authoring of teaching files directly from the AMICAS PACS workstation.

The agreement makes peerVue’s digital teaching file and content management solution available as an integrated component of AMICAS’ product suite. In one click, users can launch an embedded AMICAS Vision Series PACS viewer to view corresponding studies in PACS directly from caseVue teaching files.

Viewing prior mammograms in association with current mammograms significantly improves radiologist performance and may decrease unnecessary recalls by up to 44 percent, according to a study in the January issue of Radiology.

For the study, 12 experienced screening radiologists studied 160 mammograms to retrospectively determine the influence of comparing current mammograms with prior mammograms on breast cancer detection in screening and to investigate a protocol in which prior mammograms are viewed only when deemed necessary by the radiologist.

The federal government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded more than $5 million for 19 new grants focusing on assessing and evaluating the roles that simulation can play to improve the safe delivery of quality healthcare.

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