Stamford Hospital, a 305-bed academic medical center in Stamford, Conn., began offering its employees and their families remote blood-pressure monitoring a month ago. So far, the program has drawn more than 100 participants.

It comes as no surprise that diagnostic imaging has yet again attracted the attention of policymakers in Washington. Imaging has enjoyed exciting technological advances with corresponding breakthrough applications every decade since the 1970s. The ability to diagnose disease without invasive procedures is now a standard of care expected of physicians and their patients. And the value of imaging in the patient care chain is understood and acknowledged by physicians, but rarely quantified or articulated.

Heart rate recovery one minute after a six-minute walk test predicted clinical worsening and the time to clinical worsening in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), according to a study published online Nov. 17 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Aptus Endosystems, a developer of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) technology, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Aptus EndoStapling system, which will now be known as the HeliFX Aortic Securement System.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Healthhas issued new breast cancer screening guidelines, which recommend against annual screening of women ages 40 to 49 and extending time between screens for older women. The guidelines ignore results of landmark randomized control trials which show that regular screening significantly reduces breast cancer deaths in these women, according to the American College of Radiology.

Montage Healthcare Solutions has reached an exclusive reseller agreement with Nuance Communications in which Nuance will sell Montages healthcare data mining and performance measurement technology to its established base of radiology customers.

CHICAGO--Physicians who have a financial interest in imaging equipment are more likely to refer their patients for potentially unnecessary imaging exams, according to a study presented Nov. 30 at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

CT proves its might and muscle (once again) at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the RSNA, Nov. 27 to Dec 2 in Chicago. The CT imaging RSNA preview is Health Imagings last preview prior to the meeting. Read on for must-see sessions and to brush up on CT news from the last several months. Be sure to subscribe to our monthly CT portal to stay on top of the latest clinical, economic and practice news as it relates to CT. Finally, check in at healthimaging.com daily beginning Nov. 27 for live coverage from Chicago.