Infinitt North America, a developer of web-based electronic imaging and information management solutions, reported that its 2009 sales volume in the United States has exceeded its sales volume for any two consecutive quarters to date.

Interpretation of diagnostic mammography varies across facilities; and the failure to adjust for patient characteristics when comparing facility performance could lead to erroneous conclusions, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with the Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network to expand its existing Diagnostic Imaging Repository to participating hospitals in the Waterloo-Wellington and Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant Local Health Integrated Networks.

In its most recent report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) focused on how incentives in the Medicare payment systems could be changed from those that reward volume, to ones that reward value. The report also suggested penalizing providers of high-cost, low-quality care with lower payments and cutting payments to private plans that provide Medicare coverage.

Wooster Community Hospital of Wooster, Ohio, has selected IT and medical technology developer Sectra as its PACS provider.

Accessing and integrating diagnostic imaging data from modalities, quality-assurance workstations, RIS, PACS and EMRif used properly and prospectivelycan serve as a valuable tool to improve clinical practice and elevate the quality of care, according to Bruce L. Reiner, MD, and Eliot L. Siegel, MD.

aycan Medical Systems has installed its RIS/PACS system at Rural Radiology in Bemidji, Minn.

Reductions in outpatient interventional radiology practice expenses under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule have reduced reimbursement for interventional outpatient procedures--particularly in freestanding offices--far more than the Deficit Reduction Act and other recent Medicare reimbursement changes, according to research published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.