Imaging Healthcare Specialists has agreed to sell eight imaging centers in San Diego and Riverside counties to Scripps Health.

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has introduced legislation to eliminate the medical device tax and replace the lost revenue by raising taxes on oil and gas companies. 

The House of Representatives voted Thursday in favor of legislation that would get rid of Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula. The measure now goes to the Senate, where there will be pressure to ac quickly to avoid an automatic 21.2% cut in Medicare reimbursements to physicians that is scheduled to go into effect April 1.

Many of you are sending staff off to the the annual HIMSS meeting in Chicago, and a helpful concept to keep in mind would be the following: Few things are more complex than making something simple.

As the healthcare industry continues to expand and implementation of federal mandates on the transition to electronic medical records continues, the role of information systems managers within healthcare operations is becoming understandably more influential.

Viztek is on a roll. In early January, the Garner, N.C.-based radiology vendor won FDA approval for Exa, its web-based, zero-footprint PACS platform.

Today every forward-thinking radiology practice realizes that, in these times of falling reimbursement, rising regulatory oversight and cascading calls for transparency, it’s not enough to be great at what you do.

Emergency room doctors are ordering CT and MRI exams that may be unnecessary because of fears of malpractice lawsuits, according to an article in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.