A new study has demonstrated that inappropriate prostate cancer and breast cancer imaging rates are associated at the regional level, suggesting that policymakers need to understand regional patterns of care if they are going to optimize initiatives like Choosing Wisely. 

A new system for compensating patients in cases of medical malpractice is now being considered in the Georgia state legislature. If the proposed legislation is passed, it would transform the current medical tort system in that state into an administrative system.

When it comes to the awareness and knowledge of breast density, apparently not all women are alike, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.rl

Lawmakers in Missouri are renewing efforts to formally license the state’s radiologic technologists, assistants and practitioner assistants.

The EHR attestation deadline for Medicare eligible professionals (EPs) has been extended until March 20, 2015 for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program reporting year.

Brookings Institution, in collaboration the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), has issued a report containing a proposal for a $250 million seven-year plan to develop and implement a National Medical Device Postmarket Surveillance System (MDS). 

Ordinarily one would think that a decline in smoking rates would be beneficial from a public health perspective. But, according to a research letter published in the Feb. 24 issue of JAMA, such a decline could actually increase lung cancer mortality. 

In a bid to promote access to healthcare data, officials from the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), reiterated Tuesday during a webinar covering the final guidance on medical device data systems (MDDS), that technologies that receive, store, or display data from medical devices are of such low risk that they no longer need to be strictly regulated by the agency.