The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) said it was dismayed that the Senate Finance Committee would put senior citizens access to imaging, such as CTs and MRIs, at risk by proposing medical imaging reimbursement cuts to pay for the implementation of unrelated trade bills.

GE Healthcare has shared that DaTscan is available in more than 80 hospitals to help physicians evaluate patients with suspected parkinsonian syndromes, such as Parkinsons disease.

Myocardial perfusion reserve (MPR) is a more sensitive predictor for cardiac death than left ventricular ejection fraction and extent of viability, based on a study in this months Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Mammography does not increase the breast cancer detection rate when applied as part of a triple assessment protocol in women over age 35 with single quadrant symptoms, based on study findings published in the July edition of British Journal of Surgery. Therefore, the researchers advocated for a more discriminatory approach to the triple assessment rule.

Executives of hospitals and health systems as well as payor organizations are taking a wait-and-see approach to participation in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Shared Savings Program, commonly referred to as the Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) program. Most want more information about the ACO business model, according to three polls conducted by KPMG, EpsteinBeckerGreen and JHD Group.

After surviving childhood cancer, patients who experience a subsequent neoplasm face a large increase in the risk of developing additional neoplasms, with more than one-quarter developing third or subsequent tumors, and particularly high rates found among those treated for nonmelanoma skin cancers, according to the authors of a large study published June 27 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has chosen Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis to create an internet-accessible database for millions of cancer images. The Cancer Imaging Archive will combine tumor scans collected from various cancer research initiatives into a single searchable database accessible to both research scientists and the general public.

Community health workers can boost screening mammography compliance with stronger effects in several specific situations, including when employed in urban settings and when the community health worker and patients are racially or ethnically concordant, according to a meta-analysis published June in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.