Fifteen years ago, a national healthcare debate was raging. It took room-size mainframes to keep a hospital running, and critical information exchange usually happened at land-line speed.

At this time of the year, reflection on times gone by is a natural pastime. Although the pace of change in our world seems to have accelerated to a frantic pace, the end of the year, with its time-honored holidays, allows some of us the reassurance of continuity of traditions, family and peace.

Less than two months after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force set off a national controversy with its revised recommendations for mammography screening, the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) have issued recommendations calling for breast cancer screening to begin at age 40 and even earlier for high-risk patients.

Thirteen state attorneys general have asked Congress to delete from final healthcare reform legislation a provision contained in the Senates healthcare bill that would exempt Nebraska from having to pay for newly eligible Medicaid recipients.

The FDA and Encompass Group have issued a voluntary recall of the Thermoflect product line for relabeling regarding its use in the MR environment.

Western New York Radiology Associates, an imaging practice in Buffalo, N.Y., has selected Corepoint Healths Corepoint Integration Engine to orchestrate its internal workflow and external patient data flow.

Many enterprise emergency department information systems (EDIS) are being employed by hospitals to replace standalone, best-of-breed solutions, but are resulting in disappointed ED clinicians, according to a recently published KLAS report.

PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Health Research Institute's Top 10 health industry issues in 2010 puts healthcare cost control at the head of the list as the overarching theme for the year ahead.