David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on Friday announced plans to make available $60 million to support the development of Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP).

The Center for Diagnostic Imaging in Minneapolis has installed Fonars Upright Multi-Position MRI to replace its existing low-field, open-sided scanner.

Avnet Technology Solutions has launched new service offerings to assist in the storage and management of medical images for EHRs, and will allow its partners in the U.S. and Canada to offer vendor neutral archive solutions through its healthcare solutions practice--Avnet HealthPath.

Exposure to an MRI magnetic field can cause unintended cardiac stimulation and considerably alter pulse in patients implanted with pacemakers--conditions that can have potentially devastating consequences--according to research published Dec. 15 in BioMedical Engineering Online.

In patients with mucinous carcinoma, a distinctive tumor that reportedly has a very favorable prognosis, a minimally effective therapy that includes no additional treatment post-surgical removal should be reconsidered as researchers have made a link between this rare breast cancer and multiple tumors undetected by mammography or ultrasound.

Medipattern will provide B-CAD [computer-aided detection] software that uses breast ultrasound imaging at the Ocean Medical Imaging Center in Toms River, N.J.

Hitachi Medical Systems America has negotiated a contract with financial performance solutions group, MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, to become the groups supplier of Open MRI products.

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) a contract totaling $4.7 million to design and launch a two-year pilot project--an Internet-based network for patient-controlled sharing of medical images.