As the Department of Health and Human Services prepares for year two of the federal health insurance exchange (HIX), it recently announced plans for an automated re-enrollment process.

LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RadNet Inc.(Nasdaq:RDNT), a national leader in providing high-quality, cost-effective, fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services through a network of 250 owned and/or operated outpatient imaging centers, announced it has joined a research study, the Imaging and Genetic Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease (ImaGene) study. The study is supported in part by GE Healthcare and sponsored by the Jim Easton Consortium for Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery and Biomarkers, and, the National Institute of Aging.

A new era in healthcare is inspiring radiology practices to reach across traditional boundaries and forge alliances with hospitals, health systems, and other practices

NEW YORK (July 1, 2014) — In response to a recent national study showing that CT scans in a select high-risk population lower lung cancer deaths, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center has launched a lung cancer screening program for those at risk for developing the disease. The program uses low-dose CT scans to detect cancer in its earliest stages, giving patients a significantly better chance to survive the disease. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for men and women in the United States and current data shows that most lung cancers are diagnosed at an advanced stage.

The eye-popping jury award to the daughter of a Boston woman who succumbed to lung cancer could not have come at a more sobering time. The specialty of radiology is preparing to embark on a new public screening initiative in the form of low-dose CT lung-cancer screening, and a radiologist is successfully sued for missing a nodule on an x-ray in 2005, a notoriously difficult read under any circumstances, but especially in the ED, with little or no access to patient history.

In what is believed to be Massachusetts’s largest medical malpractice award this year, a Boston jury awarded $16.7 million to the daughter of a Boston woman whose lung cancer was missed on a chest x-ray.

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