Barco has launched Nio Color 2MP HB (high-bright) display system.

An $8.4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will enhance the infrastructure of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), a health information exchange (HIE). The grant supports research that uses data from INPC in comparative effectiveness benefits and harms of three drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Cardinal Health Foundation will award more than $1 million in grants to U.S. healthcare providers that are seeking to improve the efficiency and quality of their patient care.

Increasing the source-to-image distance for direct digital radiography study of the pelvis reduces the radiation dose while maintaining image quality, according to a study published in the September/October 2011 issue of Radiologic Technology, a journal of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists.

The FDA has notified healthcare professionals that dasatinib (Sprycel, Bristol-Myers Squibb) may increase the risk of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare but serious condition in which there is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs.

Agfa HealthCare will present Impax for Nuclear Medicine at the 2011 Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in Birmingham, England.

The FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have launched a pilot program to conduct parallel reviews of medical devices for concurrent FDA approval and Medicare coverage.

The FDA has issued a warning letter to Columbia University in New York City saying its Radioactive Drug Research Committee has failed to comply with a number of FDA regulations and did not meet the necessary conditions for the use of radioactive drugs for human research.