May 7, 2009 - With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act set to spur their development and implementation, electronic health records (EHRs) are getting a lot of attention while businesses like Google and Wal-Mart have begun to develop their own EHR tools.

May 7, 2009 – The Alliance for a Stronger FDA today praised the FDA's President’s Budget Request for devices and radiological health for fiscal year 2010 (FY 10) of $315 million, up from $280 million in FY 09, yet below the Alliance Preliminary Request for FY10 is $340 million.

May 7, 2009 - The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) said this week a report, “Guidelines for the Performance of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography,” will be printed in the May/June issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography that establishes a consensus of the minimally required standards for appropriate coronary CTA acquisition, as well as recommendati

May 7, 2009 – Researchers concluded that laparoscopy should be offered to all patients who lack an absolute contraindication for laparoscopic surgery, concluded doctors in a study comparing outcomes of non-emergent laparoscopic to open colon surgery.

May 6, 2009 - A dedicated breast cool-tip RF ablation system can induce complete tumor necrosis and reproducible ablation volumes independently of breast glandular pattern, providing excellent cosmesis, according to a study by From the Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Radiation Therapy and Interventional Radiology, General Surgery Division, and University Hospital Policlinico Tor Ve

May 6, 2009 - Aspyra Inc. has entered into an agreement with Springfield Clinic LLP, a multispecialty physicians groups in Illinois, to upgrade the laboratory’s existing LIS to the most current release of Aspyra’s CyberLAB Laboratory Information System (LIS) solution, version 7.2.

May 6, 2009 - A newly discovered gene known as DEAR1 is mutated in breast cancer and is an independent predictor of local recurrence-free survival in early-onset breast cancer, a research team headed by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the journal PLoS Medicine.

May 6, 2009 - PACS Administrators Registry and Certification Association (PARCA) will hold its annual meeting on June 4, 2009 in Charlotte, NC during the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Conference and will include continuing education (CME) credits from multinational accreditation organizations.

May 5, 2009 - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) reported that the final registration figures for the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition tallied 27,429 total registrants. The breakdown of the registrants was as follows: - 6 percent decrease from the 29,177 at HIMSS08