The American College of Radiology (ACR) is asking its members to contact their Representative to request that a recent bill prohibiting physician self-referral be rolled into the healthcare reform bill introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Within a large diagnostic population of patients with coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores of zero, 13 percent still manifest plaque of all types on cardiac CT angiography (CCTA), according to a study presented at last week's Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) meeting in Orlando, Fla.

The Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) consortium is studying effective medical imaging methods to help diagnose and treat patients with Alzheimer's disease, stroke and cancer.

When hospitalists use discharge communication software, patients and the outpatient doctors who carry out the care have better perceptions of the quality of the discharge process, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Although GE reported a 49 percent drop in net earnings for its fiscal 2009 second quarter, from $5.07 billion for the same period in 2008 to $2.87 billion this quarter, its healthcare unit's profits saw only a 21 percent decline.

A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images to create a 3D brain map has helped University of Cincinnati physicians remove a fist-sized tumor from the brain of an Indiana woman.

Agfa HealthCare has expanded the capabilities of its Impax Cardiovascular PACS with software for cardiology outcomes management from Cedaron Medical.

HealthVault, Microsofts personal health record (PHR) product, is seeking comment from the diagnostic imaging IT development community on its initial draft design for medical image data types.