A model incorporating dynamic contrast material-enhanced and diffusion-weighted MR features could help identify women with high-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), which may provide information to facilitate lesion-specific targeted therapies, according to a study published in the May issue of Radiology.

Merge Healthcare has released Merge Honeycomb Archive, an image archiving application available within its cloud-based platform.

ECRI Institute is banding with the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals to help hospitals make better decisions around selecting medical equipment.

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa will collaborate with Iowa Health System to create that states first commercial health plan accountable care organization (ACO).

Biotronik has received European approval for the market release of its Evia HF-T pacemaker series, a cardiac resynchronization therapy-pacemaker (CRT-P) device approved for use in an MRI environment.

Although the federal Medicare incentives will be available through 2016, and Medicaid incentives through 2021, widespread gaps in readiness throughout the states illustrate the challenges physicians face in meeting the federal schedule for the incentive programs, according to an article published in the April edition of Health Affairs.

McKesson has agreed to pay the U.S. more than $190 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by reporting inflated pricing information for a large number of prescription drugs, causing Medicaid to overpay for those drugs, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Varian Medical Systems and Siemens Healthcare have signed a global partnership to provide diagnostic and therapeutic systems and services for treating cancer with image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery.