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Study: Medical automation market to grow dramatically over the next five years
Technologies for running diagnostic or therapeutic processes that free up humans from doing tasks--such as health monitoring kiosks, automated X-rays and surgical robots--are becoming an extremely... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Reactor shutdown could limit imaging tests
In a move that could have serious implications for cancer patients, Canadian officials have again shut down a nuclear reactor that produces much of the world's radioactive isotopes used for medical... Read more...
Study: Radiation exposure from medical scans up dramatically
A new study concludes that Americans were exposed to seven times more radiation from medical procedures in 2006 than in the early 1980s. The study, from the National Council on Radiation Protection... Read more...
AHA asks CMS to reconsider 2009 quality measures, payment rates
The American Hospital Association isn't too happy about the quality-reporting requirements in the new proposed outpatient prospective system rule for 2009, and it would like to see CMS make some... Read more...
FL leads nation in imaging
At least where Medicare beneficiaries were concerned, it appears that Floridians were the U.S. champs for medical imaging in 2006. A new report from the GAO found that for that year, Florida Medicare... Read more...
GAO report recommends imaging cost controls
A new report from the Government Accountability office is recommending that CMS look at ways to control Medicare's fast-growing imaging costs. In its research, the agency found that Medicare spending... Read more...
