DR Systems, the privately held supplier of PACS, RIS and EHR systems based in San Diego—a highly regarded fixture in the radiology IT space for close to a quarter-century—has been acquired for $70 million by publicly traded Merge Healthcare.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of health information systems for medical imaging, interoperability, and communication, today announced its financial and business results for the fourth quarter of 2014.

The Wall Street Journal poses an interesting question for both the specialty of radiology and the millions of women in 21 states who will be notified that they have dense breasts: What should they do about it?

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

Health-care pricing got a little more transparent this week with the launch of Guroo.com, a website that allows health consumers to compare costs for more than 75 services, many of them involving medical imaging.

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). 

Did you make a new year’s resolution this year? Have you kept it? You may not be alone.

Herminia Ibarra debunks the notion that a few uninterrupted hours of thinking each week would result in better strategic ideas.