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    AMA, Google announce interoperability, innovation challenge

    The American Medical Association has joined with Google to kick off a contest to collect ideas of novel approaches to improving mobile health technology, including wearables and smartphone apps, to improve the flow of information between patients and physicians. The goal is to streamline technology to improve management of chronic diseases.

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    How Interoperable Technology Can Enhance the Efficiency of Radiology & IT

    With digital radiology, PACS and RIS in use for 15 years or more at most US hospitals, a disparate system architecture is now the reality for most departments. Multiple PACS and mini-PACS populate the environment, resulting in inefficiencies, increased operating costs, and reduced throughput for departments.

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    Smart IT Strategies for Imaging Growth & Quality Outcomes

    As healthcare reform and big data in medical imaging converge, strategies to facilitate image exchange, mobile access and patient empowerment are essential to improve the quality of patient care. Learn how cloud services can enable improved levels of service, reduce total cost of ownership to redirect capital to other patient-care initiatives and unlock new financial models for growth.

Boston Scientific sees losses narrow in Q3, despite falling stent sales

Boston Scientific has reported its financial results for the 2008 third quarter, which ended September 30, as well as its guidance for net sales for the fourth quarter of this year.

Government probes FDA actions in Actavis recalls

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating alleged FDA shortcomings to request more information about Actavis recalls, including withdrawal of all products from its Little Falls, N.J. plant.

HORIZONS AMI data will likely lead to wider bivalirudin usage in acute MI

WASHINGTONAfter one year, use of bivalirudin in MI patients, who receive angioplasty, resulted in significantly lower rates of all-cause death, death from cardiac causes, and major bleeding, compared to the standard drug therapy of heparin and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, according to the HORIZONS AMI trial presented Wednesday at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.

HORIZONS AMI finds DES more effective, as safe as BMS at one year

WASHINGTONAfter one year, use of a drug-eluting stent (DES) in heart attack patients demonstrated significantly reduced rates of target lesion revascularization and binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of a bare metal stent (BMS), according to the HORIZONS AMI trial presented Wednesday at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.

Physicians at the root of Medicaid cancer screening delinquency

Only about half of Medicaid recipients age 50 and older appear to receive recommendations from their primary care physicians to undergo screening tests for colorectal, breast and cervical cancer, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

FDA OKs Boston Scientific Taxus Liberte after two-year delay

Boston Scientific has received approval from the FDA to market its second-generation Taxus Liberte paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system.

EMEA addresses radioisotope shortage; appeals to private industry

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA), at the request from the EuropeanCommission, has performed an analysis on the current shortage ofradiopharmaceuticals in the European Union to develop potentialsolutions.

Medtronic, Bos Sci ordered to pay J&J about $1.2B for stent patents

The U.S. District Court in Delaware has awarded Johnson & Johnson (J&J) damages totaling $406.7 million and pre-judgment interest totaling $296 million from Boston Scientific and $521 million from Medtronic, in a case involving a stent patent owned by J&J.

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