Cerner has completed the acquisition of Siemens AG’s health information technology business unit, Siemens Health Services, for $1.3 billion in cash. The acquisition was announced last August, received regulatory clearance in September, and was completed yesterday.

Co-founder and nationally-recognized health IT innovator assumes expanded role at leading enterprise imaging company.

With the release of the ONC Roadmap on Interoperability last week, as well as the announcement from the HHS Secretary, Sylvia Burwell, on the department’s vision for an accelerated shift to value-based reimbursement, it seems like healthcare leadership in the U.S. is on a focused, and coordinated path toward continued healthcare transformation in 2015 and beyond.

In an announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Secretary Sylvia Burwell, made a significant announcement regarding Medicare’s planned shift to value-based reimbursement in healthcare.

In the three and a half decades since 1980, the year after the inventors of computed tomography won the Nobel Prize in medicine, CT usage jumped from fewer than 3 million scans per year to more than 80 million now. Have the risks of cumulative radiation been worth the rewards of diagnostic precision? 

“My message for New Yorkers is prepare for something worse than we have ever seen before,” warned Mayor Bill de Blasio on Jan. 25. Two days later, a New York Times headline nailed the rest of the story of Winter Storm Juno in New York: “Leaders in New York and New Jersey Defend Shutdown for a Blizzard That Wasn’t.” 

Strategic Radiology® (SR) announced today that Professional Radiology, Inc. (PRI) of Cincinnati, OH has joined forces with the SR network of progressive, independent radiology groups geographically dispersed throughout the US.

A series of reports by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the state of physician self-referrals demonstrates that self-referral has an “inescapable” effect on increasing Medicare spending and should be viewed as a “call to action," according to a commentary in January 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.