The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Education and Research Foundation and Stockholm-based clinical oncology and neurosurgery provider Elekta have announced this years Elekta Radiation Therapy Educators Scholarship recipients.

There is no EHR on the market today that does all of the steps required for physicians to successfully meet Stage 1 meaningful use criteria, according to an American Medical Association (AMA) statement released this week.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting input on approaches to developing a comparative effectiveness research (CER) inventory that captures ongoing  CER efforts in the U.S.

A reconstruction algorithm based on graphic processing unit platforms originally designed for 3D video games could yield a 10-fold reduction in the amount of radiation patients receive during cone beam CT scans, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) on July 21.

The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has granted Acorda Therapeutics a $1 million grant to fund research surrounding its Glial Growth Factor 2 (GGF2), an investigational agent used to treat heart failure.

PHILADELPHIAWhile most cancer therapies deliver a uniform amount of radiation to the tumor as a whole, cancer masses are not homogenous. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, discovered that most of the head and neck tumors in their study contained three statistically different subpopulations with distinct profiles, and they presented the study July 19 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).

In recent years, mammography rates have plateaued, based on a bi-annual report from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), which also revealed that critical gaps in screening remain for certain racial or ethnic groups, lower socioeconomic groups and the uninsured.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has reported that 94 people, including some doctors and healthcare company owners, have been charged for their alleged participation in schemes to collectively submit more than $251 million in false claims to the Medicare program in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force across the U.S.