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.

Diagnostic device company Midmark has completed the integration of its Midmark IQstress system with health IT company eClinicalWorks.

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.

Abbott has completed its $123 million acquisition of StarLIMS Technologies, a provider of laboratory information management systems.

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 has unanimously recommended approval of an expanded indication for cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), including Boston Scientific's Cognis CRT-D.

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.