The only alternatives to the federal healthcare reform that would have covered more Americans at a lower cost to the federal government were politically untenable, and would have included substantially higher penalties for those who don't comply with mandates, lower government subsidies and less-generous Medicaid expansion, according to research published in the June edition of Health Affairs.

The journey to create a certification exam to evaluate imaging informatics professionals has taken several years and hundreds of volunteer hours. The process, both slow and deliberate, involved practicing informaticists closely scrutinizing the results of each test to ensure the societies are providing a useful instrument for professionals to improve their careers, according to a review in this months issue of the Journal of Digital Imaging.

MINNEAPOLIS--Sorna showcased new components to Reviewer CD software during the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting last week.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has launched the Industry Innovation Competition by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), making available $80 million for private sector innovations.

Genetics education and training efforts in the private and public sectors have increased but these efforts have not kept pace with the emerging understanding of the human genome and rapid evolution of genomic technologies, according to a draft report from the Secretarys Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society (SACGHS) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

A District Court judge in Florida  has denied the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) request for additional time to file a motion to dismiss an amended complaint in the case of State of Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a case that questions the constitutionality of the health reform law.

The University of Louisville in Kentucky has notified the public that a database containing personal health information was available online from October 2008 until last month.

AvMed Health Plans will notify additional current and former members whose personal information may have been affected by a December 2009 theft of two laptop computers from the companys offices in Gainesville, Fla.