Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic and Sisters of Mercy Health System are collaborating to adopt GS1 supply chain standards, with specific focus on suppliers they have in common (based on purchasing volume).

Physician hospital organization UniNet has selected accountable care organization (ACO) MedVentive to support its initiative to improve care and push toward an ACO model.

Mobile device and smartphone management software developer AirWatch has released AirWatch 5.13, which generates certifications on mobile devices for authentication and encryption.

As concern heightens that the accountable care organization (ACO) model will infringe on radiologys independence and economic sustenance, radiologists must respond by informing themselves on and participating in the changing structure of healthcare, including fundamentally reevaluating their relationships with primary care physicians and leading the drive against inappropriate imaging, argued the authors of a review article published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Following the FDAs February approval of a Medtronic MRI-safe pacemaker, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reopened its consideration of coverage for pacemakers one week after announcing it would only reimburse for clinical trials.

Radiology Associates of Tarrant County, Southwest Imaging and Interventional Specialists and Grapevine Radiology Associates have  agreed to merge their respective radiology practices.

In search of minimum downtime and extensive customer service, providers rank single-plate CR higher than multi-plate, while tending to prefer DR to CR, according to a report released by the Orem, Utah healthcare market research and consulting firm KLAS.

GE Healthcare has received 510(k) approval for its specialty Optima MR430s scanner, an MR system that targets extremities while patients recline in an adjacent chair.