Florida Hospital Fish Memorial, based in Orange City, Fla., has selected Toshiba America Medical Systems portable ultrasound technology, the Xario XG ultrasound system.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted Medicaid programs in Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Dakota and Ohio federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the EHR incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Riverside Research Institute has been awarded a $3.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a research project combining ultrasound and MR methods for prostate cancer imaging.

U-Systems has received approval to market its somo.v Automated Breast Ultrasound system as an adjunct to mammography for screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer in the European Union.

Advanced visualization company Imaging Biometrics has signed a global license agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) for the development and commercialization of technology that may lead to an automated way to evaluate a tumors response to various treatment therapies.

A Georgia grand jury indicted former Perry Hospital employee Rachael Michelle Rapraeger Sept. 7 for entering negative mammography results without a physician's review.

Use of the conventional simplified version of the Framingham risk score model may underestimate the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events in millions of Americans, according to a study published online Sept. 8 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Radiotherapy systems developer Nucletron has appointed Peter Kingma as executive vice president of global sales and service.