GE Healthcare has decided to stop selling Centricity Advance, a web-based EMR, practice management and patient portal system, which was primarily marketed to office-based physicians.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) held a meeting Jan. 25 with the hope of strengthening carotid atherosclerosis management. During said meeting, the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee voted on evidence, procedures and the most beneficial strategies for the management of atherosclerosis to prevent stroke, with most members agreeing that more data are necessary.

Cancer Radiation & Specialty Clinics of El Paso, Texas, has installed eRads web-based RIS, PACS and teleradiology software platform.

Radiologists are often held to the same standards of patient communication as physicians providing direct clinical care, which means radiologists are going to be expected to disclose harmful radiologic errors and should prepare for such situations, according to an article in the February issue of Radiology.

Diagnostic radiology will have to assert its value to patients and referring physicians in order to continue to grow in a challenging environment where cost-consciousness and value are the focus, according to an article published in the February issue of Radiology.

Reimbursement cuts, radiology benefits management, accountable care organizationsthe list of strategies to control soaring U.S. healthcare costs is long and growing. But perhaps to truly control costs, healthcare needs to revisit where physicians' careers begin: medical school.

The Florida State Senate has refused to consider HB 1329, which would have required imaging centers, along with other healthcare providers, to publish and post a schedule of charges for services provided to patients paying out of pocket, effective Jan. 25.

Performing CT scans in the emergency department (ED) for patients experiencing dizziness may not be worth the expense, according to a study conducted at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and presented Jan. 26 at the Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting in Miami.