Health IT developer Merge Healthcare has entered a definitive agreement to acquire MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) application developer Confirma in an all-stock transaction.

Marylands Health Services Cost Review Commission has approved up to $10 million in startup funding to build a statewide health information exchange (HIE), with the hope more funding will be available later this year through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Carestream Health is launching a PACS for small medical practices at the 2009 meeting of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) in Las Vegas this week.

Time Medical has received FDA approval for its Pica 0.35T whole-body open MRI system.

MRI may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, staging and treatment of diabetes, according to research in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.

Advanced visualization technology aided diagnostic interpretation during the U.K. MRI in Breast Screening (MARIBS) trial, which recruited 732 women--who had at least a 50 percent risk of being a breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1), BRCA2 or TP53 gene mutation carrier--for an annual breast MRI and two-view mammogram over a nearly seven-year period (Aug. 1997- March, 2003).

Whole-body high-field MRI is a reliable option for post-mortem examination of human fetuses and might provide a non-invasive alternative to conventional autopsy, according to a U.K. study published online Aug. 6 in Lancet.

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has signed into law a bill requiring medical imaging professionals who provide sonography and MRI to have state licenses.