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DICOM Grid wins $5M in financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cloud-based imaging platform developer DICOM Grid has announced the close of a $5 million financing expansion round.
May 15, 2012
The Profit Center: Part 25 -- How safe is hospital employment?
By Mark F. Weiss
In this latest Profit Center installment, healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss discusses hospital employment for radiologists, and whether it's really the "safe" career option it's being pitched to be.
May 10, 2012
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Report: U.S. outspends 12 countries on healthcare
By Cynthia E. Keen
The U.S. spends more on healthcare than 12 other industrialized countries, yet it does not provide "notably superior" care, according to a new report. The study also sheds some light on the higher utilization of medical imaging in the U.S. relative to other countries.
May 7, 2012
ARRS: ABVS ups cancer detection in Asian women
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
An automated breast volume sonography (ABVS) system led to significantly improved breast cancer detection in Asian women, researchers from the Bangkok Breast Cancer Center in Thailand told attendees on Saturday at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Vancouver.
April 27, 2012
Senate bill would halt multiple-scan payment cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and David Vitter (R-LA) introduced legislation on April 25 that would halt a cut in Medicare reimbursement for multiple imaging studies performed on the same patient on the same day.
April 26, 2012
MICI survey finds low confidence in Medicare payment rates
By Kate Madden Yee
Although radiology administrators are confident that over the next six months their facilities will grow in procedure volume and as a profit center, they're not so sure they'll receive adequate reimbursement from Medicare for these services, according to new results from the Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI).
April 25, 2012
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ACS: More screening could aid cancer fight
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In addition to more systematic efforts to reduce tobacco use, improve diet and physical activity, and reduce obesity, expanded use of established screening tests could prevent much of the suffering and death from cancer, according to an annual report from the American Cancer Society (ACS).
April 18, 2012
CMS announces first ACOs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the first 27 accountable care organizations (ACOs) to participate in its Medicare Shared Saving Program.
April 11, 2012
Spectral Molecular nets $4M in financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cascade Technologies and wholly owned subsidiary Spectral Molecular Imaging have signed an agreement for $4 million in financing.
April 4, 2012
Racial disparity contributes to breast cancer mortality
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Racial disparity affects breast cancer care, with nearly five black women dying needlessly per day from breast cancer in the U.S., according to a study published on Wednesday in Cancer Epidemiology as well as in the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Forum.
March 20, 2012
ACR meets with CMS in bid to speed virtual colonoscopy coverage
By Eric Barnes
Virtual colonoscopy proponents met Tuesday with representatives of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to present new evidence that colorectal cancer screening with virtual colonoscopy is ready for routine clinical use in a Medicare population -- and is worthy of Medicare dollars to pay for it.
March 20, 2012
CMS tool may overestimate number of unnecessary brain CTs
By Cynthia E. Keen
There may be flaws in a new statistical tool developed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that's designed to measure how often hospitals perform appropriate brain CT studies on emergency patients presenting with headaches, according to an article published online February 24 in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
March 15, 2012
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