A group of 10 leading U.S. hospitals and healthcare systems have teamed up with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare on the Hand-off Communications Project, to use new methods to find the causes of and put a stop to dangerous and potentially deadly breakdowns in patient care.

Dose reduction has become a top priority for the entire imaging community, particularly among providers serving the pediatric population. Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee combines multiple strategiestraining, protocols, decision support and low-dose systems--to drive dose to the microgray level for some studies.

Carestream Health has released an optional upgrade to its CR-based mammography systems, the SNP-M1 Screen.

Zebra Technologies, a developer of printing and identification technologies, and Honeywell have joined forces to provide mobile computing, scanning and printing solutions to resellers and partners in healthcare.

The Obama Administration didnt fare as well as last year in the 2010 privacy report card from public interest research center Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

Alert Notification has joined the Verizon Medical Data Exchange to share digital health information between physicians and healthcare organizations.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Oct. 20 the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) recommendations to HHS on medical loss ratio were achievable for insurers and would help keep premiums lower.

Every year, Health Imaging & IT does a deep-dive into the results of our annual survey to unravel the details of how imaging and IT decision-makers are grappling with the complex demands of operating and managing a radiology department or imaging center.