Watch for the global market for point-of-care diagnostics to jump 3.7 percent by 2016, from $13.8 billion to $16.5 billion.

SK Capital Partners, a New York City-based private investment firm, has signed a definitive agreement to create IBA Molecular Imaging, a jointly-owned new company derived from the radiopharmaceutical division of IBA (Ion Beam Applications).

Philips Healthcare is bringing its HeartNavigator interventional imaging tool to the U.S.

Last October, a group of organizations convened a summit on problems caused by medical device alarms. In December 2011, one of the groupsthe Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)published a report based on the proceedings.

From constitutional challenges to tattoo monitors, the year brought change, advancementand hints of things to come in healthcare.

While bismuth shielding has been used to reduce dose from CT, the disadvantages, including wasted radiation dose and degradation of image quality, outweigh the benefits, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

I hope the staff and readers of CMIO had a safe and restful holiday. I spent New Years in Riviera Maya, Mexico, with my family (wife and three college-aged children). The decision on where to go was based on input from my children: somewhere warm, with a beach and outside the U.S.

Most of us make New Years resolutions to lose weight, improve our diet, spend more time with our families and other good deeds. More often than not, we start out doing well, but then our efforts taper off after a few weeks.