A bipartisan group of 61 Members of Congress, led by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) of the House Small Business Committee, signed and circulated a letter to congressional colleagues expressing concern over imaging cuts recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

By a vote of six to three, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down a 2007 Vermont law that restricts the sale, disclosure and use of pharmacy records revealing prescribing practices of individual doctors.

Polyglot Systems' Meducation SMART app has been named the winner of the Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART) Platform Apps Challenge, issued by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has made available up to $500 million in Partnership for Patients funding to help health providers improve care and avoid preventable injuries.

AT&T has launched a new cloud-based medical imaging and information management service.

Physicians across the practice setting spectrum are adopting mobile technology at a rapid rate, according to a recent study from QuantiaMD. Eighty-three percent of responding physicians reported that they own a mobile device capable of downloading applications and 44 percent of those who do not have a mobile device intend to purchase one in 2011.

WORCESTER, MASS.--Body Area Networks (BANs) are increasingly used for a wide variety of applications, from the healthcare technology field, to use by rescue personnel, the military and NASA. In the medical field, BANs can be utilized for physiological health monitoringsuch as primary vital signs, heart rate, respiration, as well as internal and external body temperaturesand the future potential of the technology is promising.

MR and CT perfusion imaging for acute ischemic stroke is characterized by inconsistency among optimum perfusion values to identify tissue at risk of infarction in acute stroke, according to a review published online June 2 in Annals of Neurology.