A desire to protect themselves from medical liability lawsuits may be as much of a motivator as patients’ best interests in spurring emergency room (ER) physicians to order tests, reveals a new survey from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Of roughly 1,800 ER practitioners queried in the survey, more than 50% deemed fear of being

Claiming that it “misses the target” of better care at lower costs, seven U.S. senators have asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw its proposed rule governing accountable care organizations (ACOs) established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Radiation emitted by full-body scanners installed at airports is within acceptable levels, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Tuesday. The agency performed new tests on the scanners as a follow-up to checks conducted earlier this year. Such checks showed several anomalies, including missing data or calculation errors unrelated

The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has made a critical omission en route to achieving Meaningful Use adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), reveals a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) security audit conducted by the U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG). The internal audit, the results of which were published

Requirements for obtaining Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval are “uncertain” or “unclear”, say 75% of medical device industry officials who participated in an online survey conducted from December 22, 2010 through February 22, 2011.

Solis Women’s Health, the nation’s largest independent provider of screening and diagnostic imaging services for breast cancer, has appointed James Polfreman to the position of president and CEO. Polfreman will oversee the company as it continues to expand its nationwide network of facilities, which currently serve more than 400,000 patients in

The fee-for-service Medicare program and its beneficiaries would reap significant savings if Radiology Benefits Management (RBM) programs were adopted by Medicare, according to a recent study by Magellan Health Services. Commissioned by Magellan's NIA subsidiary and conducted by Milliman, Inc., an independent actuarial and consulting firm, the

Measuring a patient’s glomerular rate before administering a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) can eliminate new cases of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), according to a study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School and slated for publication in the July issue of Radiology.