U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have launched a new interagency effort to combat Medicare fraud with the creation of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team.

Elekta and Nucletron have reached an agreement to market and license Elekta's software system Mosaiq, in response to Nucletron's recent decision to cease development, sales and marketing of its Oncentra Visir and Oncentra Information Management product lines.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released an implementation plan to Congress for the provisions of the HITECH Act within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Healthcare imaging vendors offering next-generation CT scanners face a difficult task in helping healthcare providers see the value of adopting these advanced systems, according to a new report from market research firm KLAS.

Varian Medical Systems will introduce BrachyVision Acuros, a system that allows clinicians to calculate patient doses for brachytherapy treatments, at the GEC-ESTRO exhibition in Porto, Portgual, on May 14-16.

Examining emergency department (ED) chest pain patients with coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is a quick and economical way to rule out serious cardiovascular disease, according to a study presented today at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual conference in New Orleans.

TomoTherapy, manufacturer of the Hi-Art radiation therapy treatment system, has reported an increase in net losses for its fiscal 2009 first quarter, which ended March 31.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that evidence is inadequate to conclude that CT colonography (CTC), also called virtual colonoscopy, is an appropriate colorectal cancer screening test--as a result, CTC for colorectal cancer screening of Medicare beneficiaries will not be reimbursed.