Care to comment on the proposed guidelines for accountable care organizations? You have until June 6. CMS wants to hear from you, said John Pilotte, CMS' acting director of performance-based payment policy staff, during a National eHealth Collaborative webinar on accountable care and payment models yesterday.

The FDA has warned women that thermography should not be used in place of mammography for breast cancer screening or diagnosis. Mammography remains the most effective way of detecting breast cancer in its earliest stages, the agency stated.

Of 652 radiology mistakes reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA) in 2009, half were specifically related to wrong-procedure or test errors, according to a report published in the June issue of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. Another 30 percent of the incidents were related to wrong-patient errors. 

Provider-owned organization MedVirginia and medical services provider Centra have partnered to enable Centras three hospitals to go live with the Social Security Administration (SSA) MEGAHIT project.

Intraoperative noise volume was found to be associated with surgical site infections in a study of 35 patients published May 27 in the British Journal of Surgery.

TeraRecon is sharing iNtuitions integration and interconnectivity capabilities at the annual meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), June 2-5 in Washington, D.C. and emphasizing the adoption of the companys iNtuition Cloud managed software-as-a-service offering, at the 92nd Deutsche Roentgenkongress in Hamburg, Germany June 2-3

Radiology benefit managers (RBMs) are assuming an increasing role in the utilization of imaging, but as the authorization system makes its way into more hospitals and national healthcare policy, a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology questions the cost-effectiveness of RBMs and points to substantial cost shifting to providers.

An analysis of diffusion-tensor MRI images suggested that blast-related mild traumatic brain injury can involve axonal injury, according to a study published in the June 2 issue of New England Journal of Medicine.