For home health agencies, homecare-specific vendors' focus and attention generally outweigh the potential for integration with an enterprise vendor's EMR, according to a KLAS report.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will expand investment in broadband for medically underserved communities across the U.S. 

If data will move healthcare forward, integration tools will move the data. As the first wave of meaningful use analysis builds and breaks, system interoperability and integration tools have newly defined importance in the final rules. The spotlight will be on healthcare data and how those are used, and gathering that data and delivering it in a useful, (meaningful) way begins with devices.

Siemens Healthcare now is offering a new multi-functional workstation for urology, the Uroskop Omnia, which has just received FDA clearance.

Image analysis technology provider iCAD has combined several of its offerings to create a new MRI product suite for cancer detection, staging, localization, treatment planning and serial monitoring of the breast, prostate and other organs.

A bioabsorbable atrial septal defect (ASD) repair implant (BioSTAR, NMT Medical) has proved comparable to the Amplatzer Septal Occluder (ASO, AGA Medical) in children, but the BioSTAR was associated with longer procedure times, according to a study published in the July issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.

PHILADELPHIACT perfusion assessment of rectal cancer after hypofractionated radiotherapy correlated well with FDG-PET assessment and showed an increased tumor perfusion. Researchers suggest the increased vascularity could improve the bioavailability of cytotoxic agents in rectal tumors, often administered early after radiotherapy treatment, according to a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).

New York Governor David A. Paterson has made available $140 million in grants to health facilities across the state to advance health IT and support capital restructuring and long-term care improvements.