News & Updates

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

• In The News
  08.10.10

  Molecular Imaging Identifies High-Risk Patients With Heart Disease

  A study published in the August Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) finds that molecular imaging can identify high-risk patients with potentially life-threatening cardiovascular conditions and help physicians determine which patients are best suited for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy.

• In The News
  08.10.10

  Will new HHS guidance improve mammography screening rates?

  In July, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidelines that require new private health plans to cover preventive services, including mammography screening for women 40 and older. Breast screening rates have taken a dip in recent months: Will the new rules boost them again?

• In The News
  08.10.10

  Health Law Expands Medicare Coverage Of Preventive Care

  Starting in January, the new health-care law will make it easier and cheaper for seniors to get preventive care. Medicare beneficiaries will be able to receive for free all preventive services and screenings that receive an A or B recommendation for seniors from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

• In The News
  08.10.10

  Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s

  Researchers are finding simple and accurate ways to detect Alzheimer’s long before there are definite symptoms. In addition to spinal fluid tests they also have new PET scans of the brain that show the telltale amyloid plaques that are a unique feature of the disease.

• In The News
  08.10.10

  CMS changes restriction of ‘only one’ FDG PET scan for certain tumors

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a notice declaring that the national coverage determination (NCD) will be changed to remove the current absolute restriction of coverage to “only one” FDG PET scan.

• In The News
  08.10.10

  Expert explains industry’s hopes for CMS demonstration project

  Scott Cowsill, senior product manager of Diagnostic Solutions at Nuance and co-founder and chair of the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition, spoke with DOTmed about the clinical decision support industry’s hopes for the CMS demonstration project.

• In The News
  08.10.10

  Clinical study backs newly cleared VC CAD software

  Backed by a study that shows high sensitivity and specificity in patients, a new computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme for virtual colonoscopy (also known as CT colonography or CTC) was approved last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

• In The News
  08.09.10

  MRI advances reported at AAPM

  MRI technology is advancing at a rapid pace, both in terms of instrumentation and applications. At the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting held July 18-22 in Philadelphia, attendees learned of recent advances in both of these areas.

• In The News
  08.09.10

  Lack of virtual colonoscopy coverage a barrier to screening

  A survey of primary care patients who were offered but did not undergo colon cancer screening found that more than four-fifths would be willing to undergo virtual colonoscopy (also known as CT colonography or CTC) — but not if they had to pay the entire cost out of pocket.

• In The NewsMITA News
  08.09.10

  Radiology legislation introduced

  A bill that would require education and certification of professionals who perform medical imaging and radiation therapy was introduced Aug. 5 in the Senate.