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Is there a silver lining to the 2014 SGR patch?

By Kate Madden Yee

The latest effort to avert cuts to Medicare physician payments mandated by the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula may be another in a long line of temporary fixes, but it also represents a victory for radiology, with language mandating the use of appropriateness criteria, transparency around payment policy, and radiation dose management.

April 9, 2014

Brainlab hits Novalis milestone

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Brainlab said that more than 1 million patient treatments have been performed with its Novalis system.

April 9, 2014

BridgeHead updates HDM software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

BridgeHead Software has announced upgrades to its Healthcare Data Management (HDM) software.

April 8, 2014

HHS releases payment data for Medicare docs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on April 9 released data on services and procedures provided to Medicare beneficiaries, as well as payment amounts for those services by provider.

April 8, 2014

Shimadzu, Konica Minolta ink portable DR deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Shimadzu Medical Systems USA and Konica Minolta Medical Imaging have expanded their relationship with a new digital radiography (DR) agreement.

April 8, 2014

RamSoft adds Fla. installation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

RamSoft has installed its PowerServer PACS software at Radiology Associates of Tallahassee in Florida.

April 7, 2014

eRAD adds to client list

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

eRAD has delivered its PACS software and other applications and services to Carolina Breast Imaging Specialists, a breast imaging center in Greenville, NC.

April 7, 2014

DICOM Grid signs Texas HIE

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

DICOM Grid has received an order from Greater Houston Healthconnect, a health information exchange (HIE) that serves 20 counties in southeast Texas.

April 7, 2014

Aycan, MedQ collaborate on new RIS/PACS

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Aycan Medical Systems and MedQ have joined forces to release aycan workflow, an integrated RIS/PACS offering.

April 7, 2014

GE gets FDA nod for Q.Clear

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its Q.Clear PET iterative reconstruction algorithm.

April 7, 2014

Annals opinions: Reboot needed on breast screening debate

By Kate Madden Yee

It's time for both sides of the mammography screening debate to drop the same old arguments and start thinking about the problem of breast cancer in new ways, according to two opinion papers published online April 8 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

April 7, 2014

Varian installs 500th linear accelerator in Japan

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Varian Medical Systems has installed its 500th medical linear accelerator in Japan at the Red Cross Kyoto Daiichi Hospital.

April 6, 2014

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