Friday, February 03
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center has awarded Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute a $10 million grant to support the expansion of its cancer imaging research program.
Thursday, January 05
Nuance Communications has called for medical speech recognition platform developers to give mobile clinicians a voice in its 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge.
Wednesday, December 14
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as a Center for Quantitative Imaging Excellence for its research in cancer screening, treatment and follow-up care, specifically with modalities such as mammography, PET, CT and MRI.
Sunday, December 11
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have received a $7 million five-year renewal grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue research in molecular imaging of cancer and its response to therapy. This new award is funded through 2016.
Tuesday, November 01
ImaginAb has been awarded $2.3 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research program to help further develop diagnostic imaging agents for PET.
Tuesday, October 25
A total of 18 hospitals, health systems, clinics and physician groups in California will receive grants nearly $20 million from Blue Shield of California to help them participate in accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Friday, October 14
The Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research, of Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative research and development agreement from the U.S. Army for neuroimaging studies of human performance. The agreement also includes an option for $3 million of future work based on availability of funding.
Wednesday, October 12
UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Health & Hospital System have been selected by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to receive a $6.3 million grant to work on improving screening for colorectal cancer.
Wednesday, October 12
An $8.4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will enhance the infrastructure of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), a health information exchange (HIE). The grant supports research that uses data from INPC in comparative effectiveness benefits and harms of three drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Sunday, October 09
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., recently received $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to acquire a new biomedical accelerator mass spectrometry instrument. The instrument will provide analysis for medical and other biological research.
Friday, September 30
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a $5 million, three-year grant to fund ongoing research titled "Studies of Nuclear Reactions and Structure" at Florida State University. The project was previously awarded $4.4 million by the NSF in 2008.
Friday, September 30
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching a series of initiatives to assist more than 900 community health centers and community-based organizations to enhance the quality and coordination of healthcare services.
Thursday, September 29
The ASRT Education and Research Foundation and Varian Medical Systems have formed a six-year agreement to fund up to 19 scholarships of $5,000 each per year to radiation therapy and medical dosimetry professionals.
Thursday, September 29
Health Imaging, AHRA and Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) are seeking to recognize five practices with a $1,000 cash award for Best Practices in Radiology Quality and Economics.
Wednesday, September 14
The six winners of the 2011 HIMSS Davies Awards deliver quality and care to the patients and populations they serve with IT—specifically with an EHR. The healthcare organizations and providers, winners of the HIMSS Davies Awards of Excellence, appear in the four award categories: organizational, ambulatory, community health organization and public health.
Tuesday, September 13
The University of Virginia (UVA) Center for Telehealth in Charlottesville, was awarded a nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to create the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center. UVA, in partnership with telehealth networks across the region, will link rural and urban healthcare providers to expand telehealth capabilities.
Tuesday, September 06
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University two grants, totaling nearly $1.7 million, to investigate cardiac CT and PET mammography.
Monday, September 05
The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has announced the recipients of the 2011-2013 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship, which is a two-year fellowship designed to provide extensive training and experience in the fields of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging for Japanese physicians in the early stages of their careers.
Tuesday, August 23
NHIC, a subsidiary of HP, has been awarded a $72.3 million, five-year contract renewal by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue servicing durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers in 11 northeastern U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Wednesday, August 17
To help hospitals and imaging centers build new or expand upon existing education and patient care initiatives, the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) announces the fourth year of its Putting Patients First Program.
