Healthcare Headlines

03.11.10 - Study Finds Low Yield for Diagnostic Coronary Angiography

Source:The Wall Street Journal

03.01.10 - ACR Launches Online Nuclear Medicine and PET Accreditation

Source:ACR

03.01.10 - CMS Gives Congress, Physicians a Temporary Reprieve on Pay Cut

Source:AMA News

02.28.10 - Carotid Stents Comparable to Surgery Gold Standard: CREST Trial

Source:Wall Street Journal

02.25.10 - Whistleblowers Charge Medtronic with Off-label Marketing

Source:Minneapolis Star-Tribune

02.25.10 - Health Care Summit: Play by Play

Source:Health Affairs Blog

02.17.10 - Workgroup Urges Flexibility in Meaningful Use Requirements

Source:ONC HIT Web site

02.16.10 - Patients Differ with Physicians Over New Mammography Recommendations

Source:The New York Times

02.09.10 - FDA to Regulate Medical Radiation

Source:The New York Times

02.08.10 - Obama Calls Bi-partisan Health Summit

Source:The Washington Post

02.05.10 - Illinois Supreme Court Kills Medical Malpractice Law

Source:The Chicago Tribune

02.05.10 - ASTRO Calls for Central Database to Report Linac Errors

Source:The New York Times

02.01.10 - NIH to Track Patient Radiation Exposure

Source:USA Today

01.26.10 - Radiation Therapy Overdoses Examined

Source:The New York Times

01.26.10 - Continuum and UnitedHealthcare Locked in Battle Over Notification Penalty

Source:The New York Times

01.21.10 - Brown to Massachusetts: Health Care Reform is a State Issue

Source:The Washington Post

01.21.10 - Brown Victory Upsets Health Care Reform Apple Cart

Source:The Washington Post

01.20.10 - New Fibroid Treatment Marketed to OB-Gyns

Source:The Wall Street Journal

01.20.10 - Dems Consider End Run Around Senate Pending Massachusetts Outcome

Source:The Los Angeles Times

01.12.10 - WSJ Reports on Industry Response to USPSTF Mammography Guidelines

Source:The Wall Street Journal

12.31.09 - HITECH Launched

Source:The New England Journal of Medicine

12.23.09 - Mammography Screening Debate: Overcoming Fear of the “R” Word

Source:The New England Journal of Medicine

12.23.09 - Health Bill Will Follow State of the Union Speech

Source:Politico

12.09.09 - Mammogram Guidance Debate Transcends Numbers

Source:Wall Street Journal

12.09.09 - Senate Prepares to Abandon Public Option

Source:The Washington Post

12.08.09 - CT Brain Perfusion Radiation Crisis Widens

Source:The Los Angeles Times

11.26.09 - Senators Urge Hearings on USPFTS Recommendations

Source:American College of Radiology

11.19.09 - Senate Health Bill Emerges

Source:The Washington Post

11.18.09 - CT Detects Heart Disease in Mummy

Source:Wall Street Journal

11.18.09 - Mammography Outcry Gets Political

Source:Los Angeles Times

11.16.09 - Task Force Recommends Less-frequent Mammograms

Source:Wall Street Journal

11.16.09 - A Contrarian View of Dartmouth’s Wasteful Spending Charges

Source:The Philadelphia Inquirer and Kaiser Health News

11.16.09 - Grassley Accuses CMS of Ignoring Fraud Warnings

Source:Associated Press

10.23.09 - Sen Reid Revives Bid for Government-run Plan

Source:The Wall Street Journal

10.21.09 - Cancer Society to Backpedal on Breast Cancer Screening Recommendation

Source:The New York Times

10.20.09 - A Majority of Americans Favor Public Option

Source:The Washington Post

10.20.09 - Physician Pay Fix Fails to Advance

Source:Modern Healthcare

10.14.09 - Multiple Failure Points in Cedars Sinai Radiation Overdose Cases

Source:The Los Angeles Times

10.14.09 - Snowe Joins Dems to Pass Health Finance Bill

Source:The Washington Post

10.12.09 - Health Reform: Insurers Go into Attack Mode

Source:Washington Post

09.29.09 - Cutting the Fat from the Health Care System

Source:The Washington Post

09.22.09 - Baucus Modifies Bill in Bid for Support [PDF]

Source:US Senate

09.16.09 - Baucus Releases Bill Without Grassley’s Support

Source:MarketWatch

09.16.09 - Baucus Bill Released With No Public Option

Source:Kaiser Health News

09.16.09 - Baucus Bill Calls for 65% Equipment Utilization Rate

Source:American College of Radiology

09.15.09 - Potential Impact of Public Plan on Hospitals, Insurers

Source:Health Affairs

09.15.09 - About Face: AMA Stumps for Reform

Source:Los Angeles Times

09.14.09 - Setting Hospital Rates: The Maryland Experience

Source:The Wall Street Journal

09.07.09 - ACR to Create Li-RADS to Standardize HCC Reporting

Source:American College of Radiology

09.04.09 - The Birth of the Death-Panel Controversy

Source:The Washington Post

09.03.09 - AQI Files Comments on Proposed 2010 MPFS [PDF]

Source:Association for Quality Imaging

08.31.09 - Hospital Executives Express Qualms About Health Care Reform

Source:The Washington Post

08.28.09 - Grassley: Outlook Gloomy for Bipartisan Health Bill

Source:Kaiser Health News

08.27.09 - Remembering Sen. Kennedy: Health Care Milestones Timeline

Source:Kaiser Health News

08.26.09 - ACR Reacts to NEJM Study

Source:American College of Radiology

08.26.09 - NEJM Study Quantifies Medical Radiation Exposure

Source:The New England Journal of Medicine