Denver, Colo.-based Qwest Communications has been selected by Memorial Practice Management (MPM) in Yakima, Wash., to provide a communication network solution to connect seven MPM-managed healthcare clinics in central Washington state.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) will commence new studies regarding Medicare Part B imaging payments and the appropriateness of many emergency department scans, according to the recent OIG Fiscal Year 2010 Work Plan.

BioImagene has unveiled Crescendo, its new digital pathology workstation, this week at the 2009 College of American Pathologists conference in Washington, D.C.

Health officials in New Brunswick are conducting an external quality review of radiology procedures performed by Bhagwan Jain, MD, in that province between 2006 and 2009, after an earlier review of the radiologists work revealed certain irregularities.

Second-look sonography has value in the evaluation of abnormalities found on breast MRI, according to a retrospective review in this months issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

A report by the New York City-based Commonwealth Fund Commission has found there is a significant difference between the access, quality and cost of healthcare across state lines and that healthcare disparities among states continue to widen.

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has begun re-evaluating its security policies after a laptop containing sensitive BCBSA data concerning physicians was stolen in August from an employees car.

Ontarios decade-long EHR initiative is in the middle of an ongoing scandal that has resulted in the resignation this week of the provinces health minister and the subsequent release of a special report from the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario blasting the initiatives spending practices.