Pat Fitzgerald was named executive vice president and general manager of Richardson Healthcare, a newly formed business unit of Richardson Electronics that will focus on high quality replacement parts for the diagnostic imaging equipment market.

WellPoint will shed its name and assume the consumer-facing Anthem name in a strategic brand move designed to better align the company’s corporate and product brands as healthcare shifts to a more consumer-centric marketplace.

Blue Shield of California and WellPoint’s Anthem Blue Cross will invest $80 million on a health information exchange (HIE) in California that would make the medical records of nine million beneficiaries—representing more than a quarter of the state's population—available to network physicians and hospitals.

LAS VEGAS, August 1, 2014 –Current economic factors have created many challenges for hospitals and medical providers, yet one radiology practice is defying the odds.  As Nevada’s largest provider of leading-edge diagnostic and interventional imaging, Las Vegas-based Desert Radiologists has emerged as one of the country’s largest and most successful private radiology practices.

TUSTIN, Calif., August 12, 2014 – Providing hospitals with resources and support to develop and improve patient care programs, AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management announces the seventh year of its Putting Patients First Program. Putting Patients First grants enable healthcare facilities to fund programs, training or seminars aimed at improving patient care and safety and customizing treatment in CT, MR, Ultrasound, X-ray and Vascular imaging. The grants are funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.

According to the results of a survey published today by global analytics company Towers Watson, more U.S. companies plan to increase the use of telemedicine to lower healthcare spending costs in 2015. Telemedicine has the potential to deliver more than $6 billion in healthcare savings per year to U.S. companies, according to the report.

When it passed the Affordable Care Act (and the companion Physician Payment Sunshine Act), Congress tasked physicians with one of the summer’s more frustrating activities, and this one is turning out to be more onerous than expected.

The ACR has joined the American Medical Association—and more than 110 other medical associations and societies—in asking CMS to postpone the deadline for physicians to register, review and dispute data in the Open Payments System prior to its scheduled publication on September 30, 2014. The current deadline for physicians to review the database looms large—August 27, 2014.