News & Updates

Check here regularly for news about medical imaging and updates from MITA.

• MITA News
  09.20.11

  MITA Calls on Congress to Reject Administration Proposals for Further Cuts to Medical Imaging

  The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today called on Congress to reject the proposals included in President Obama’s deficit reduction plan that will reduce patient access to life-saving advanced medical imaging.

• Industry NewsMITA Statement
  09.20.11

  MITA AWARDED COMMERCE DEPARTMENT FUNDING TO INCREASE MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS

  The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today announced it has been awarded a Commerce Department International Trade Administration (ITA) Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) award. The purpose of this is to increase exports and expand patient access to diagnostic medical imaging, radiation therapy and radiopharmaceuticals.

• Industry News
  09.19.11

  Device Industry Stakeholders Tell FDA To Ignore IOM Report on 510(k) Process

  The 510(k) premarket notification process can be improved and does not need to be abandoned, representatives from the medical device industry told the Food and Drug Administration during a Sept. 16 public meeting.

• Industry News
  09.16.11

  After RBM challenge, Del. requires Blue Cross to adopt appropriate use

  Tim Trysla, executive director of Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC), applauded the decision and noted that there is no research showing that RBMs achieve the long-term cost savings that proponents claim they do.

• Industry News
  09.15.11

  RSNA’s Image Share project hopes to repeat DICOM success

  In the late 1990s, radiology societies helped encourage vendor adoption of the DICOM 3.0 standard, a milestone that ultimately sparked a revolution in digital image management. Now, RSNA hopes its Image Share project will do the same for the nascent field of image sharing.

• Industry News
  09.14.11

  Medical device tax: Indiana lawmaker Dan Coats urges Senate to stamp out the 2.3 excise tax on med-tech

  Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) urged fellow lawmakers to strike down the 2.3 percent medical device excise, set to go into effect in 2013, that has been criticized by industry groups as a job-killer.

• Industry News
  09.13.11

  Health 2.0, ONC issue HIT grant challenges

  The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Health 2.0 conference are soliciting applications for a competition that will award grants to developers of healthcare IT software.

• Industry News
  09.12.11

  Neuroscientists Produce Guide for Using Ultrasound to Treat Brain Disorders in Clinical Emergencies

  The discovery that low-intensity, pulsed ultrasound can be used to noninvasively stimulate intact brain circuits holds promise for engineering rapid-response medical devices.

• Industry News
  09.09.11

  Annual Breast Exams, Mammograms Still Key to Detecting Breast Cancer

  Contrary to some other findings, new research indicates that mammograms and breast self-exams are useful for the detection of breast cancer, including cancers in younger women.

• Industry News
  09.08.11

  Study Finds Medical Device Tax Could Limit Job Creation, as Group Pushes for Repeal

  The medical device excise tax that is set to take effect in 2013 will harm U.S. competitiveness and cost thousands of jobs, a health care industry group said Sept. 7.