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This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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Merge, CATO ink technology transfer agreement

Health IT solutions provider Merge Healthcare has been selected by Durham, N.C.-based Cato Research Ltd. to provide the proprietary etrials EDC solution through its technology transfer program.

R.I. equity firm to buy Virtual Radiologic for $294M

Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners in Providence, R.I., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Virtual Radiologic, a developer of radiologist workflow technologies, for $17.25 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $294 million.

Intel survey: Telehealth usage to increase over the next decade

The U.S. healthcare delivery will undergo dramatic changes over the next 10 years through the adoption of telehealth, according to a survey of health and IT professionals sponsored by Intel, and released during the annual meeting of the American Telemedicine Association in San Antonio. 

Rep blasts VA over data breaches

In the wake of two data breaches of veterans health information, Rep. Steven Buyer, R-Ind., ranking Republican on the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs, sent a stinging letter to Erik K.Shinseki, Secretary of the VA, criticizing the agencys continuing material weakness in veterans personal information from data breaches.

KLAS: 70% of providers looking for health IT consultants

As the healthcare industry marches headlong toward meaningful use, demand for skilled health IT consultants is high, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.

Psilos: Get innovative, invest in health IT

The investment and focus in health IT innovation will assist the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts (PPACA) goals and could produce large return-of-investments, according to the venture capital firm Psilos Group's 2010 Outlook on Helathcare Economics & Innovation report.

Obama Administration releases new National Drug Control Strategy

President Obama released the Administration's inaugural National Drug Control Strategy, which establishes five-year goals for reducing drug use and its consequences through a balanced policy of prevention, treatment, enforcement and international cooperation.

New Mexico Medicaid breach affects 9,600

The New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) is in the process of notifying approximately 9,600 Medicaid Salud! Plan and Fee for Service members that a breach of protected health information (PHI) occurred in March.

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Positron partners with Upbeat Cardiology Solutions to improve cardiac PET/CT access

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.