The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will give a total of $6.6 million in federal matching funds to six states' Medicaid programs for planning activities necessary to implement the EHR incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute research team has received a four-year, $1.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue a study of arterial plaque, which is seeking to predict the likelihood of plaque rupture.

Remote health management is the fastest growing segment of the home health management market and promises to improve health and cut healthcare costs, according to a report from management consulting firm Scientia Advisors. However, the market will only reach its full potential if health insurers adopt reimbursement policies encouraging greater physician adoption, the report noted.

Toshiba America Medical Systems has introduced Variable True Rate Angiography with Combined Encodings (V-TRACE), an MR angiography (MRA) sequence available on Vantage Titan systems and Vantage Atlas MR systems.

The FDAs Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee has voted unanimously in favor of approving with conditions Medtronics Revo MRI SureScan pacing system designed as MR conditional, or safe for use in MRI systems under specified conditions.

The deadline for comments is past now, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has input from thousands of sources to synthesize  before finalizing the proposed guidelines on meaningful use of certified EHR technology. Can they get it done during the spring and complete the rules before the spring ends with the summer solstice? Groups representing physician health IT managers, radiologists and even Congress members offered comments as the deadline loomed.    

Internet-based medical imaging and data storage company FiatLux Imaging has hired Max Lyon as its new CEO.

Image and information management systems provider DR Systems will be highlighting its Unity Women's Health Imaging PACS at the annual conference of the National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) from March 20-24 in Las Vegas.