Lawmakers in the commonwealth of Virginia are debating the implications of breast density notification legislation.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center has awarded Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute a $10 million grant to support the expansion of its cancer imaging research program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has informed the American College of Radiology that “operational limitations” will prevent them from applying the imaging professional component Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR) to group practices beginning Jan. 1, 2012. Therefore, CMS will not apply the professional component MPPR for imaging services performed by separate physicians in the same group practice for 2012.
The U.S. House of Representative passed the Middle Class Tax Relief & Job Creation Act (H.R. 3630) Dec. 13. Among other things, H.R. 3630 prevents an across the board 27 percent cut to Medicare physician reimbursement statutorily required by the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. The bill provides physicians with a 1 percent increase in Medicare payments for 2012 and 2013.
Women diagnosed with breast cancer are increasingly burdened by multiple imaging appointments prior to surgery, according to researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, who presented the findings Dec. 9 at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Siemens Healthcare debuted an array of imaging and informatics advances at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
CHICAGO—Errors in interpretation of ultrasound screening of breast cancer were similar in prevalence (21 percent of misses) to errors in mammographic and MRI interpretation, based on a retrospective review of the ACRIN 6666 trial, presented Nov. 27 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
CHICAGO—Adhering to best practices and engaging end users in a project implementation does not guarantee compliance or a successful adoption of structured reporting templates, according to the scientific poster presented Nov. 27, at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
As breast imaging centers rush to pair efficient operations with a host of patient-friendly amenities, the wise will consider the negative impact of the assembly-line model, according to an essay published in the November issue of Health Affairs. In “Call It ‘Jiffy Boob:’ What’s Lacking When Care Has Assembly-Line Efficiency,” Colleen T. Fogarty, MD, family physician and assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Rochester in New York, detailed her experience at a high-volume, patient-friendly breast center.
The International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS) has applauded the FDA’s decision to modify the U.S. product label for Definity Injectable Suspension, an ultrasound contrast agent.
SAN ANTONIO—“If we simplify the problem, we simplify the development of solutions,” Clayton M. Christensen, MBA, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, said Oct. 26 at CHIME11, the Fall CIO Forum.
Written by Lisa Fratt
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. has vetoed SB 791, which would have required mammography providers to notify women about their breast density and potential benefits of additional screening.
A nationwide U.S. survey found that women overwhelmingly want the option for additional screening tests to find cancer early, even when testing resulted in a false positive. Nine out of 10 women who required a biopsy to determine a false positive indicated that they would still opt for the additional screening the following year.
Centric Health has entered into an agreement to acquire Medical Imaging Centres and certain business assets of Rads 24/7 Teleradiology Consultants for up to $36.2 million.
Columbia University's engineering researchers have developed a technique that utilizes extremely short pulses of ultrasound waves to open the blood-brain barrier, creating a host of possibilities for noninvasively treating brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, atypical lobular hyperplasia and epilepsy.
Researchers successfully fused real-time ultrasound to coregistered CT and FDG PET studies and combined the datasets with electromagnetic device tracking to perform percutaneous and intraoperative biopsies and radiofrequency ablation, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.
The patient history and clinical examination often sufficed for patients presenting to the emergency department, according to a study published as a research letter online Aug. 8 in Archives of Internal Medicine. The authors suggested that the decision to order advanced imaging studies, such as CT, be based on clinical data for this population.
The global market for diagnostic imaging will exceed $24.4 billion by 2016 with a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent from 2009 to 2016, according to a report published by GBI Research.
University Hospital Zurich has installed the Ziostation supercomputing functional analytics system from Ziosoft.
As many as one-fourth of cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) diagnosed using core-needle biopsy are in fact understaged invasive breast cancers, according to a study published in the July issue of Radiology.
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