A survey of 180,000 physicians finds radiologists, practices owned by hospitals, among biggest adopters of electronic health records.
While cloud storage promises to streamline costs and even IT departments by bringing a utilities business model to computing, risks to security and privacy are a storm that's brewing.
The Department of Health and Human Services named attorney Joy Pritts its chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
New VP Robert Spurr hopes to shake up old direct-to-doctor business model.
The first step toward a national electronic health record.
The medical isotope bottleneck shows signs of easing as Poland's Maria reactor becomes one of the first reactors to enter the isotope-making business in decades, according to Covidien.
Mobile phone-sized Vscan now available at the doctor's office.
The troubled diagnostic company Sequenom launched a test for determining the sex of a fetus by analyzing the mother's blood.
Philips sold its cutting-edge molecular diagnostic business to the Swiss molecular diagnostics company Biocartis.
Technology similar to the kind that made "Avatar" a box office smash is coming to the obstetrician's office.
The FDA moves to quell fears of medical radiation overexposure with an initiative that tackles CT, fluoroscopy and nuclear medicine.
The Canadian maker of high-end interventional MR suites acquires a prototype neurosurgery robot designed with aerospace technology in exchange for 1.6 million shares.
Puffers need not apply at Memorial Health Care System.
Philips' telemedicine division inked a three-year deal with the Sun Belt home care system SunCrest Healthcare, Inc.
DOTmed News spoke with Dr. David Bluemke of the National Institutes of Health about the new program to require radiation dose monitoring on all equipment purchased by the NIH's Clinical Center.
The injections of new cash could help establish a registry for medical devices and create over 1,000 new jobs.
If the merger of the HIT companies' payment network and document conversion software goes well, FutureVision could get an extra $40M.
Radiologist recommends research in epigenetic effects of low-dose radiation.
With power-generating rubber, batteries might be a thing of the past.
Chalk River medical isotope-producing reactor to stay offline till April.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has alerted consumers of the most serious form of recall, a Class I recall, on an Edwards Lifesciences' dialysis machine, the Aquarius Hemodialysis System.
A compact heart scanner that reads magnetic fields could help paramedics or ER doctors quickly diagnose heart conditions.
More medical isotope drama unfolds as Argentine firm appears to lose bid and Korean businesses mull stepping into the breach, Korean paper Dong-a Ilbo reported.
Find out how PDAs, iPods stack up as radiology readers.
Is China's mega 850-billion-yuan health care stimulus plan, coupled with a massive population beginning to succumb to Western diseases, a miracle for U.S. medical device makers, or a mirage?
A $2.25 million grant could help the two companies develop new reactor technology to solve medical isotope shortage woes.
The two Fortune 500 companies hope to spur adoption of electronic health records by independent doctors, they announced.
Instruments of Mercy, a non-profit that refurbishes and sterilizes equipment for medical missions, announced it was looking to help teams going to Haiti to assist in recovery and relief efforts.
Dose reduction software that places each pixel in context can cut the radiation load of an angiogram by up to 50 percent, according to a study at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Philips Healthcare donated almost $1 million worth of medical equipment to help a team of medical volunteers from the Caritas Christi health network aid victims of the Haitian earthquake.
What if you could instantly diagnose diabetes, lung cancer or asthma just by blowing on a chip?
Microwave technology originally designed to shoot down nuclear missiles could help zap breast cancer tumors, according to a study in a recent issue of Annals of Surgical Oncology.
Novita Therapeutics, a new medical device company, hopes its approach to developing products, grooming them until they're ready to be spun-off as a separate company, lifts the industry out of the research doldrums.
Patients with narrowed arteries who don't qualify for drug-eluting stents could be helped by teams of sticky nanoparticles, dubbed nanoburrs, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
St. Jude's neurostimulation device Genesis just got approved for use in Japan.
Could looking at mammograms with cancerous lesions before starting work for the day influence how likely radiologists are to report positive findings? A new study, published in Current Biology helps us approach the answer. Read how airport security X-rays might inform medical imaging.
Challenging late-stage repairs could delay when the Canadian medical isotope reactor goes back online.
Gadolinium-based contrast agents could have ten times the contrast strength when attached to nanodiamonds.
Doctors in England have developed a simple eye test that might diagnose Alzheimer's, possibly enabling them to catch the disease early enough for more effective treatment.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will team up with Animas Corporation, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, to create an "artificial pancreas."
Cleveland BioLabs just got a patent for a drug that could protect people from radiation sickness, possibly saving lives in the aftermath of a nuclear power plant accident or radioactive "dirty" bomb attack.
Finding colorectal cancers, usually the job of a colonscopy, may be done by a simple lab test.
Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals is cutting around nine jobs in order to save money to focus on research and development for its pipeline of cancer drugs.
After a decade filled with its share of natural disasters, epidemics and terror attacks, HHS comes out with a plan to make the country better prepared to withstand the next emergency.
An investment from Medtronic and a gaggle of venture capitalists could get a continuous glucose monitoring and an osteoporosis drug-delivery device under human skins before the end of the year.
A new type of brain scan is more sensitive than straight MRI in detecting early signs of age-related cognitive decline, according to a recent study.
A technique that reads magnetic fields in the brain might provide a useful biomarker for diagnosing children with autism spectrum disorders.
The business tech giant swallows up Healthvision as it moves further into the hospital market.
With wars abroad leaving hundreds of young Americans missing limbs, a Congressional windfall could spur the development of advanced prosthetics that connect nerve tissue to implants.
At RSNA, DOTmed News met up with the ten-year-old PACS and radiography company.
