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This channel includes news coverage of healthcare policy and regulations set by Congress, the states, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and medical associations and societies. 

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Double Black Imaging Acquires Image System PACS Display Business from Richardson Electronics

Westminster, CO –May 25, 2017.   Double Black Imaging announced today that it has acquired the Image Systems PACS Display Business from Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RELL).

MITA chair urges quick passage of device-service bill

Last week MITA, the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance, applauded a bipartisan bill introduced in the House to ensure accountable servicing of medical devices no matter who’s doing the servicing. This week the group is on the hill—make that in The Hill—with an op-ed urging quick passage. 

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Medicare has slashed imaging reimbursements by a third since 2006

It’s not news that Medicare has saved itself a ton of money on spending for medical imaging since the enactment of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. But now there are numbers to quantify the hurting the cuts have laid on radiologists and cardiologists—who’ve taken it on the chin even more.

ImageMoverMD Announces EHR-Integrated Solution to Import Outside Medical Images

ImageMoverMD, a provider of enterprise solutions that integrate medical images with electronic health record systems, today announced the availability of ImageMover Media. ImageMover Media is a universal, web-based solution to import DICOM and non-DICOM medical images. The solution is available to new and existing customers immediately.

MITA Commends Aetna for Decision to Cover CT Colonography

Washington, D.C. – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) commends Aetna for its decision to cover computed tomography (CT) colonography, also known as virtual colonoscopy.

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Siemens Healthineers to acquire Medicalis to boost population health management portfolio

Siemens Healthineers announced today its intention to acquire Medicalis, a provider of workflow technology and clinical decision support to radiology groups, imaging centers and hospitals in the United States and Canada. Terms of the transaction were not immediately disclosed.

To hear some tell it, AI is all but hunting radiology down

Another day, another future-looker prognosticating radiology’s downfall due to the rise of the AI robots. 

Venture capitalist: ‘The role of the radiologist will be obsolete in five years’

When billionaire entrepreneurs, investors and technologists talk, people listen. Vinod Khosla is all of those things—and he’s predicting the imminent demise of radiology at the hands of AI algorithms. 

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Positron partners with Upbeat Cardiology Solutions to improve cardiac PET/CT access

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

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Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

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‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.