Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and 175 other House Republicans have introduced HR 408, which proposes cutting $2.5 trillion in federal spending during the next 10 years by repealing or defunding a range of discretionary non-defense government programs, including the Patient Protection  & Affordable Care ACT and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Dow Jones & Co. has filed court papers to overturn an injunction obtained by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1979, which prevents the public from knowing how much taxpayer money individual doctors receive from the Medicare program.

Eighty percent of the U.S. hospitals with cath labs have implemented a formal cardiology PACS (C-PACS) to store and utilize their cardiology-related images, such as cardiac cath, echocardiography, interventional angiography, electrophysiology, CT, MR, SPECT and PET/CT images, according to a market research report by IMV Medical Information Division.

United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), a 131-bed acute care hospital located in Genesee County, N.Y., will replace its current document management software with Perceptive Software's enterprise content management (ECM) tools for healthcare.

Cisco Systems intends to acquire privately held Pari Networks, a provider of network configuration and change management (NCCM) and compliance management software. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Accountable care organizations have the potential to lower costs, improve the quality of care, facilitate delivery system reform and promote innovation in healthcare, but they need time to organize and evolve, according to a recent article published in the January edition of Health Affairs.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has made available for public comment a draft of its technology assessment report for health risk appraisal (HRA).

The Minnesota Health Information Exchange (MN HIE) has signed an agreement to provide e-prescribing and patient clinical information to Courage Center of Minnesota, a rehabilitation and resource center.