Functional genomic research company Phylogeny and biomedical surgical oncology product provider Neoprobe have entered into a partnership to develop a new imaging technology for head and neck cancers.

GE Healthcare is collaborating in two clinical trials with the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Hamilton Health Sciences Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, on the use of a new technology that may assist in assessment and early detection of breast cancer in women who are at high risk for the disease.

Varian Medical Systems has equipped the first in a planned series of new radiotherapy centers in India--Fortis International Oncology Centre in Noida, India--with its radiotherapy equipment and software technology.

At first glance, there appears to be less at stake in the HITECH Act provision for payors. However, as the details of healthcare reform emerge, the links between meaningful use, health IT, coverage reform and payor industry business practice reforms are becoming more explicit, according to a report from Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).

The Continuing Extension Act of 2010, enacted April 15, extended the zero percent update to the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule through May 31. Now, Congress is still debating the elimination of the negative update that took effect June 1; however, in hopes of legislation passing, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is holding claims through June 17.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued Carestream Health its sole source PACS service agreement.

The FDA has cleared Halt Medicals Halt 2000GI electrosurgical system for soft tissue ablation using radiofrequency (RF) energy.

Mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) adoption accelerated after Congress established national Medicare coverage in 2000, noted a review the June 14 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine (AIM). However, an interview with lead author Joshua J. Fenton, MD, and an accompanying editorial, questioned its clinical value.