HealthPartners of St. Paul, Minn., said it has achieved cost savings by integrating its digital medical images and radiology reports into patients' EMRs.

The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 has had a disproportionately negative impact on radiologists private office MRI and CT practices compared with other physicians, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

A federal judge has cut the potential damages Covidien's Mallinckrodt subsidiary can receive in its patent infringement case over medical injectors against two U.S. divisions of BraccoLake Success, N.Y.-based E-Z-EM and Acist Medical Systems of Eden Prairie, Minn.

New Jersey radiologist Bruce N. Saffran, MD, who was awarded about $500 million in a 2008 patent infringement case against Boston Scientific, filed suit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over Abbott's Xience V everolimus-eluting coronary stent.

Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its 800th Vantage 1.5T MRI system at Elkview General Hospital in Hobart, Okla.

GE Healthcare has introduced the Optima MR450w, a wide-bore MRI system.

Gene Barnett, MD, of the Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center at Cleveland Clinic, is conducting research that uses laser and MRI technology to heat and kill brain tumors.

Franklin & Seidelmann, a radiology interpretations provider, has appointed Clayton T. Larsen as senior vice president of marketing for the firm.