Directions can serve as the ultimate guidance for end goals and aspirations. They can share insight and wit but they also can come up short. Weve all gotten poor directions. Traveling around the U.S. from city to city, I can recall a mental highlight reel of lackluster directions that still make me laugh out loud.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has reversed a lower court decision and held that installed MRI and PET/CT systems at Northeastern Pennsylvania Imaging Center should be treated as personal property for sales tax purposes.

The University of Oxford has installed Siemens Healthcare's Magnetom 7T whole-body MRI system, and plans to use the system for clinical neuroscience and cardiology research.

In a study to provide insight into the effects of telemonitoring on self-care and clinical management, and determine the features that enable successful heart failure (HF) telemonitoring, researchers concluded that the success of a telemonitoring system is highly dependent on its features and design.

The challenges in the adoption and use of EHRs led authors to pen a list of 10 rights and responsibilities of EHR users that could serve as the foundation on which to build an approach to healthcare in the electronic age. The article was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

MRI should not replace clinical observation in the treatment of patients with hip pain, as 73 percent of healthy volunteers had abnormal findings on MRI, according to a study presented Feb. 11 at American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco.

Infusion of cardiosphere-derived stem cells into patients who had had heart attacks can help regenerate healthy heart muscle, according to a prospective, randomized trial published Feb. 13 in The Lancet.

Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Ala., has named John Christopher Davis, MD, as the organizations first CMIO. In this position, Davis will provide leadership in the continuing development and advancement of clinical systems and technology for the systems four hospitals.