Hospital Compare Web site updated by Medicare.
Senate version of reform stirs industry response. Finance committee still working on their version.
A Colorado boy is climbing 14 of Colorado's tallest peaks in 14 days to raise money for a friend with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Brian Hilgers is Director of Enterprise Business Development for the DOTmed 100 company.
Imaging Radiology Oncology Association to present a unified front in representing medical imaging industry personnel and diagnostic clinics.
Nominee Regina Benjamin, M.D. lauded.
Healthcare sales decline year-on-year but increase compared with Q1, supported by modest growth outside the U.S.
Atlanta investors scoop up the Utah nuke med organization.
He combines a clinical mind and entrepreneurial spirit in his company, Abbey International Enterprises.
Fractures most common injury; one in three injuries required hospitalization.
Using 3-Tesla (3-T) MRI, radiologists can diagnose and stage deep endometriosis for surgery.
Journal Supplement provides new and previously published clinical practice resources for daily reference, practice of interventional radiology.
ECRI Institute to Host Surgical Fire Web Conference on July 22, 2009.
First in series of five seminars supporting latest clinical techniques and industry education.
A new imaging technique can monitor the HER2 protein found in above-normal amounts.
Read the proposal; comments accepted through August.
Clinical IT remains a priority, AHA says.
Global leader in publication auditing verifies DMBN circulation.
Cardinal health spinoff takes an important step toward going public later this summer.
Dr. Germino is a world-renowned expert in inherited kidney disease.
CMS proposes payment, policy changes for physician services to Medicare beneficiaries in 2010.
Partnership will link leading Chinese hospitals with community health care centers in four cities, to enhance care that patients receive in their home communities.
This recall affects certain units manufactured prior to March 2008.
SNM flagship publication ranks first among all imaging journals worldwide, according to Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Report.
Five-phase stage-gate model captures process complexity from product ideation through postmarket surveillance.
Gail Latimer, RN honored for her outstanding achievements in the nursing profession.
A new alliance between the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Chile, aims to accelerate progress against cancer in Hispanic populations in the United States and Latin America.
Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations lead to charges against 53 doctors, health care executives and beneficiaries for more than $50 million in alleged false billing.
Refinements of the definitions, classifications, and interpretations of fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring methods were issued Wednesday in new guidelines released by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has announced the winners of the AHA NOVA Award.
American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians and American Osteopathic Association -- more than 330,000 doctors -- voice plea for change.
Primary care clinicians and their staff appear to fail to inform some patients, or to fail to document informing patients, about abnormal results on outpatient medical tests, according to a report in the June 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Indictments are in connection with alleged unlawful clinical trials.
DOTmed News recently spoke at length with CEO Jan Erik Hedborg.
Universal Hospital Services, a Minnesota-based medical equipment and management solutions provider, has opened new district offices in Memphis, TN, and Tupelo, MS, to service its growing customer base in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.
For a hard-pressed health sector, technology is part of the solution.
Mott ranks No. 4 in pediatric heart care and is ranked among nation's best in eight other pediatric specialties.
Data show actual imaging equipment utilization rates far below President Obama's recommended 95% rate for Medicare reimbursement.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting patients to the Class I recall of certain Medtronic Kappa and Sigma pacemakers.
Project in developing countries a collaboration with UnitedHealth Group's chronic disease initiative.
UMDNJ resolves federal civil fraud allegations.
Health reform must deliver "evolutionary change" says new leader of American medicine.
Program increases community access to automated external defibrillators.
Dr. McEwan is director of oncologic imaging at Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, and professor and chair of oncology at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine.
Florida physician honored by peers.
Doug passed away June 4, 2009 at his Florida residence.
To accelerate adoption of electronic medical records (EMR), GE Healthcare and its financial arm, GE Capital have made $100 million available in the form of interest-free loans to hospitals, doctors' groups, clinics and provider networks.
President Obama to address the nation's physician leaders today.
State-of-the-art X-ray room and AEDs to provide medical care for players and fans at Yankee Stadium.
Radiologists, like professional pilots for example, depend on good vision as part of their occupation.