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North Shore-LIJ, VillageCare to open permanent urgent care center

A long-awaited urgent care center will serve the community formerly served by St. Vincent's Hospital.

Improving standard of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Care while increasing MRI revenues

Standalone Performance AUROC curve of Bot Image's ProstatID AI Software obtained during clinical studies using retrospective Imaging and Pathology data from various MRI vendors and locations.

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Report: Molecular imaging device market to hit $6.6B by 2014

Personalized medicine and new imaging biomarkers are drivers, the report said.

EXPMT 2000 External Pacemaker Analyzer by Netech Biomedical

Tests all functions of external pacemakers, including transcutaneous and transvenous
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After passage of reform, health care lobbying slackens but remains strong

Medical device makers, hospitals and their advocates spent tens of millions of dollars in the second quarter lobbying Congress on issues ranging from the medical device tax to Medicare.

DOTmed AHRA video: Canon USA

DOTmed News reports from the AHRA annual meeting with a sneak peek at Canon's first wireless digital radiography system.

Researchers use artificial corneas to restore sight

Supply of 'biosynthetic' corneas could help alleviate human donor shortage.

Arthroscopy: Arthroscopy flies under the radar and across the world

An industry sector report from the pages of DOTmed Business News.

Focus on health reform: individual mandate, insurance exchanges

Exchanges to buy affordable health insurance will be implemented in each state.

Minnesota senators focus on FDA medical device approval

Klobuchar, Franken target improvements in device approval process.

Oregon patient safety commission releases new report on state hospitals

Improvement shown in patient safety but more work needed.

State: Illinois legislature criminalizes nursing home negligence, implements health reform

A medico-legal entry from DOTmed Business News.

Employees file lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente

The company says the lawsuit appears to be related to the ongoing election dispute between SEIU-UHW and NUHW.

Medtronic reports strong earnings, despite revenue drop

The Minnesota-based company lowered its guidance for FY 2011 based on "uncertain times."

Mass. law aims to stop "doctor shopping," control OxyContin epidemic

Law to prevent doctor shopping, overdose.

Kindred Healthcare buys hospitals, nursing centers, for $218M

Kindred Healthcare Inc. is buying hospitals and nursing centers in California and Texas for $218 million, adding to the hundreds of health care facilities it owns nationwide.

WHO provides insights into global medical technology needs

The World Health Organization's priority device list is a telling documentation of medical urgency.

Nuclear breast imaging tests associated with higher cancer risks

New research shows the potential increased cancer risk from BSGI and PEM scans.

Radiologists call for national plan to tackle medical imaging overuse

Patient demand, lack of guideline awareness and even financial conflicts of interest have contributed to the growth of unnecessary medical imaging, a group of high-profile radiologists argue, and they think the profession should crack down on it.