A lung screening and surveillance task force, established by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and led by medical professionals from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, strongly recommended new guidelines for lung cancer screening in the June 20 online edition of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

The Endocrine Society has issued a new set of clinical guidelines urging some men to get bone density scans to check for osteoporosis. The updated clinical practice guideline was published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Carestream Health in Rochester, N.Y., has started shipping its DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray system.

GE Healthcare unveiled a program for low-dose CT imaging called GE Blueprint during an announcement June 21 at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System.

Ultrasonography has been shown to be a useful tool for evaluating and treating adult sepsis patients in the emergency department, with physicians altering initial management plans based on point-of-care ultrasonographic data in more than 50 percent of cases, according to a study published online May 28 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Lantheus Medical Imaging has been selected to receive a $300,000 Massachusetts-Israel Innovation Partnership grant to develop a 3D capsule for colorectal cancer screening.

As the healthcare community strives to become more transparent as a means to improve care, some have turned to cardiac surgery quality assessments or physician report cards. However, others turn their noses up to these types of public report cards, saying that the information may not always be 100 percent accurate.

Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., has been awarded a $10 million grant from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to design a new care model that will harness IT to approach gaps that currently exist in healthcare.