Quality Systems, parent company of NextGen Healthcare, has announced the results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2010.

Falling procedure volume and spending will be capsized by expanded health coverage and five-year growth of up to 5 percent in imaging device sales, according to a report published by the Millennium Research Group.

The recent heated debate in the House of Representatives simmered over what to call its failed effort to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. So, did the healthcare reform law kill jobs or enable better healthcare for some?

Researchers have used fMRI to identify the left intraparietal sulcus as active in working memory for both visual and acoustic sensory inputs, complementing past imaging research indicating that individual brain regions can be responsible for multi-sensory functions, according to a study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) has inked a deal with Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) to use ICA's software to provide health information exchange (HIE) services statewide.

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.