The eHealth Initiative tracked the successes and failures of U.S. organizations that were working on a health information exchange (HIE), and found that 150 initiatives responded to and qualified for inclusion in 2009.

Biotronics3D has worked with the Institute of Cancer Research to develop and launch new software, 3D Net Perfusion, designed to improve the accuracy of MRI scan analysis.

There is comparable accuracy in 3T and 1.5T MRI systems in the diagnosis of meniscal tear, according to the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Philips Healthcare has signed an eight-year iSite PACS expansion deal with OrthoCarolina, an orthopedic practice comprised of 16 locations in the Charlotte, N.C. region.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is asking its members to contact their Representative to request that a recent bill prohibiting physician self-referral be rolled into the healthcare reform bill introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Within a large diagnostic population of patients with coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores of zero, 13 percent still manifest plaque of all types on cardiac CT angiography (CCTA), according to a study presented at last week's Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) meeting in Orlando, Fla.

The Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) consortium is studying effective medical imaging methods to help diagnose and treat patients with Alzheimer's disease, stroke and cancer.

When hospitalists use discharge communication software, patients and the outpatient doctors who carry out the care have better perceptions of the quality of the discharge process, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.