According to the findings of two recent Italian studies presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego on May 5, breast MRI can detect lesions missed on mammography and ultrasound and help surgeons plan the most appropriate surgical treatment, and by using preoperative breast MRI prior to surgical intervention, the number of local cancer recurrences at follow-up can be reduced.

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have selected 15 pilot communities for wide-scale use of health IT through the Beacon Community program, with awards totaling $220 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Implementation of a locally modified, commercially sold computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system was associated with a statistically significant reduction in the hospital-wide mortality rate at a quaternary care academic childrens hospital, according to research from a recent article in Pediatrics.

Several IHE profiles (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) were endorsed for national European programs in several countries where IHE national initiatives are active, which was one of the most important results observed last month at the 10th annual European Connectathon in Bordeaux, France.

CardioNet, a wireless medical technology company that focuses on the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, has fallen deeper into net losses due to falling sales, as reported in its results for the 2010 first quarter, which ended March 31.

Hospital Laennec in Creil, France, has installed a 1.5T MR system, the wide-bore Optima MR450w, from GE Healthcare.

New payment and healthcare delivery models require a fresh examination of fraud and abuse risk, according to Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), during his keynote address at the Healthcare Compliance Association's Annual Compliance Institute last month.

iCAD has reported that it lost $1.2 million in the first quarter of 2010, compared with the $1 million net loss posted in the same quarter a year ago.