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vRad hits telerad firms with patent suit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Teleradiology services provider Virtual Radiologic (vRad) has filed a lawsuit against several teleradiology firms -- including national radiology group Imaging Advantage -- charging patent and copyright infringement.
August 19, 2013
Kwiatkowski pleads guilty in hepatitis C case
By Kate Madden Yee
Radiologic technologist David Kwiatkowski has pleaded guilty on charges of infecting patients with hepatitis C by taking the anesthetic fentanyl intended for patients undergoing interventional radiology procedures and diverting it for his own use.
August 13, 2013
Elekta, Varian bury the hatchet
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology firm Elekta and radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems have resolved their litigation announced in August 2012.
August 12, 2013
Kan. radiologist indicted in $7M Army fraud scheme
By Brian Casey
A radiologist and former U.S. Army officer from Kansas has been indicted along with two other individuals on charges of running a contracting scheme that allegedly defrauded the Army of more than $7 million for medical imaging products and services.
August 1, 2013
NC enacts breast density law
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on July 23 signed legislation that directs healthcare facilities that perform mammography examinations to provide patients with information on their breast density.
July 23, 2013
Atirix lands 2 quality control patents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical software developer Atirix Medical Systems has been awarded two U.S. patents for quality control systems and methods.
July 21, 2013
ContextVision wins patent lawsuit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image enhancement developer ContextVision has won a patent lawsuit involving imaging services company Sapheneia.
July 15, 2013
CMS rule would settle Varian, Elekta payment spat
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A proposed rule issued on July 8 by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would settle a reimbursement spat between Varian Medical Systems and Elekta.
July 10, 2013
Ex-fugitive convicted in radiology center scheme
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
New York state officials have announced that an international fugitive apprehended at an airport in Puerto Rico in 2011 has been convicted on charges of setting up phony radiology companies to take part in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme in the state.
July 1, 2013
Radiology publishes Berlin poem on errors from RSNA 2012
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In case you missed it at RSNA 2012, the poem delivered by Dr. Leonard Berlin about disclosing errors to patients has now been published in the July edition of Radiology.
June 23, 2013
Siemens settles ultrasound copyright case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has resolved its copyright and trade secret lawsuit against Conquest Imaging regarding ultrasound patents.
June 19, 2013
Bard pays $48.2M in whistleblower lawsuit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer C. R. Bard has agreed to pay the U.S. government $48.2 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that its urological division and ProSeed subsidiary paid doctors and hospitals kickbacks to entice them to order Bard's products at inflated prices to treat Medicare patients with prostate cancer.
May 15, 2013
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