The nation’s two leading cardiac accreditation and certification organizations are joining forces to offer a single joint product for hospitals beginning Jan. 1, 2019. The American Heart Association and The Joint Commission, the largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare, are collaborating to enhance cardiovascular patient care and improve outcomes and quality of life for patients with cardiovascular disease.

The Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals Inc. (CORAR) — the voice of the radionuclide, radiopharmaceutical and nuclear pharmacy industries in North America — strongly supports legislation recently introduced by Congressman George Holding (R-NC-2) and Seth Moulton (D-MA-6). This legislation, designated H.R. 6948 - Medicare Diagnostic Radiopharmaceutical Payment Equity Act of 2018, would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to recognize diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals (RPs) as drugs and institute a separate payment policy under the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).

Canon Medical Systems USA Inc. launched an all-new program designed to help reduce the leading causes of pain and injury for sonographers from work-related musculoskeletal disorders, which afflict up to 90 percent of clinical sonographers. The Healthy Sonographer Program aims to educate sonographers about best practices to prevent positioning themselves in awkward postures – including reaching and twisting – which can result in injuries to the shoulders, neck and wrists and can be a detriment to patient engagement.