High-energy physicists at CERN in Geneva are making production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds," according to work presented at the 17th annual conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, held in Prague, Czech Republic, this week.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will revisit its decision on expanded coverage for carotid artery stenting.

CardiacAssist has introduced a longer cannula set to cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to be used with its TandemHeart cardiac-assist device, TandemHeart Transseptal Cannula Set-Enhanced Flow 72.

St. Mary's of Michigan in Saginaw, a member of Ascension Health, has activated Eclipsys' Sunrise Pharmacy medication management solution.

Authorized and funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has formed the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, allocating $1.1 billion to coordinate research and guide investments in comparative effectiveness research.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)has chosen David Blumenthal, MD, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama's campaign, to lead healthcare IT efforts for the administration.

Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa., plans to replace 26 disparate systems from various vendors with a single end-to-end revenue management system froffm McKesson.

The term radiation oncology describes the translational integration of radiotherapy and radiosurgery, radiation biology and radiation physics into the complexity of multi-modal therapy. The specialty and its technologies have come a long way from the day when William Roentgen attempted to treat a mole with x-rays.