In the interest of improved and personalized patient care and to stave off the increasing commoditization of the field, radiologists need to step forward from behind their screens and make their roles known to patients, argued the authors of a comment published in the January issue of Radiology.

Medical technology company Endosense has teamed up with Siemens Healthcare on a joint development project to integrate Endosense's catheter contact-force data with Siemens electrophysiology products.

Healthcare spending in the U.S. grew at a historically low rate in 2009 on the heels of the recession, curtailed primarily by a deceleration in private health insurance spending as 6.3 million Americans lost coverage. Government spending moderately offset the slowing growth, as federal spending on healthcare grew to 54 percent of the government's total revenue, according to research conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Multiple Russian hospitals are transitioning from paper-based medical systems to an EMR developed by IBM and Complex Medical Information Systems (C-MIS), enabling clinicians to share information and access tests and lab results.

The use of an electronic workflow management system along with customer service representatives to communicate critical radiology results may improve efficiency and radiologist satisfaction, according to a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Edda Technology has installed its volumetric assessment IQQA-Liver Enterprise program for pre-operative planning and post-surgical follow-up of liver procedures at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The FDA has cleared STI Medical Systems' ImageSense software for visualizing acetowhitening in cervical colposcopic exams.

Toronto's St. Joseph's Health Center has completed its migration and installation of Sectra RIS, which is integrated with several St. Joseph's departments and loaded with report turnaround time tracking software.