Although GE reported a 49 percent drop in net earnings for its fiscal 2009 second quarter, from $5.07 billion for the same period in 2008 to $2.87 billion this quarter, its healthcare unit's profits saw only a 21 percent decline.

A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images to create a 3D brain map has helped University of Cincinnati physicians remove a fist-sized tumor from the brain of an Indiana woman.

Agfa HealthCare has expanded the capabilities of its Impax Cardiovascular PACS with software for cardiology outcomes management from Cedaron Medical.

HealthVault, Microsofts personal health record (PHR) product, is seeking comment from the diagnostic imaging IT development community on its initial draft design for medical image data types.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) could receive $3.31 billion to spend on IT in 2010, an increase of 30 percent over the agency's 2009 budget, under a bill approved Monday by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Medication safety information systems developer Meta has released MetaCare CPOE, a clinical provider order entry system.

A team of researchers has invented a process for filling fullerenes with radioactive material, which holds great promise for delivering targeted radiation therapy.

Physicians may be able to differentially diagnose three common neurodegenerative disorders via MRI in the near future, according to a study presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) on July 11 in Vienna.