Economics: Page 118

Fees, cost shifting may blunt cost savings from RBMs
By Kate Madden Yee
Much of the healthcare savings attributed to the use of radiology benefits managers (RBMs) are swallowed up by fees, while other "savings" may in fact simply be the shifting of healthcare costs to physicians, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
June 1, 2011
CMS launches help program for health IT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is highlighting measures that will help healthcare providers to adopt and meaningfully use health information technology, the agency said.
May 26, 2011
Year in Malawi brings challenges, rewards for radiologist
By Rosemary Frei
When Dr. Josée Sarrazin moved to Malawi in 2009 to work alongside the sole permanent radiologist in the country of 14 million people, some of her colleagues questioned her judgment.
May 23, 2011
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DR to come to remote Guatemala
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Rotary International is collaborating with the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare of Guatemala and the Pan American Health Organization to bring diagnostic digital radiography (DR) services to that country.
May 17, 2011
Medicare to pay for MRI-conditional pacemakers
By Brian Casey
In a victory for medical device maker Medtronic, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on April 26 that it would pay for MRI studies performed in patients with pacemakers, provided the pacemakers have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in an MRI environment.
April 25, 2011
WHITIA scores win with Guatemala digital x-ray install
By Alexandra Weber Morales
A nonprofit group formed to bring imaging to the developing world just completed a high-profile project, the installation of digital x-ray and teleradiology links in Guatemala. But the project also indicates the challenges facing the World Health Imaging, Telemedicine, and Informatics Alliance (WHITIA).
April 24, 2011
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HHS: Medicare overpaid for emergency imaging
By Kate Madden Yee
Medicare paid a total of $38 million in 2008 for erroneous claims for the interpretation of CT, MRI, and x-ray studies performed at hospital emergency departments, according to a report posted this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Inspector General.
April 20, 2011
OctreoPharm nets financing for PET tracer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
German nuclear medicine contrast firm OctreoPharm Sciences has completed financing for the clinical development of its SOMscan PET cancer diagnostic agent.
April 13, 2011
MedQuist wins NJ contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MedQuist Holdings, the parent company of speech recognition and transcription technology provider MedQuist, has won a contract with a New Jersey hospital to provide computer-assisted coding technology and outsourced coding services.
April 13, 2011
IsoRay receives additional financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope developer IsoRay Medical has received an additional $500,000 in institutional financing.
April 11, 2011
Women in developing nations face breast cancer barriers
By Kate Madden Yee
Women in developing nations face breast cancer screening and treatment barriers such as misconceptions about mammography services, insufficient access, or even having to deliver their own biopsies to labs for processing, according to a report published as a supplement to the April 1 issue of the Breast.
March 31, 2011
UCSD student strives to bring US to Uganda
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A fourth-year student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine will be traveling to Africa in May to try to make medical imaging technology more widely available in low-income countries.
March 28, 2011
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