IAMERS’ BEST Practices Committee To Present On Quality Management Systems At New Orleans Annual Meeting
The Best Practices Committee has issued recommended quality management templates for IAMERS members. The templates pertain to Complaint Management, Traceability, Training and Data Management. The Committee recommends IAMERS members engage in an internal review process to determine how the templates may be best used.
License Restrictions in the United States
We have been extensively examining the license restriction situation and have had a discussion on license restrictions with the Federal Trade Commission. We are at this time of the view that those who hold dominant positions in the diagnostic imaging market and seek to enforce license restrictions only when the relationship is not a strategic [...]
License Restrictions in Europe
President Upton and General Counsel Robert Kerwin met with the Head of DG Comp’s Antitrust Pharma and Health Services in Brussels last month and discussed our view that Directive 2009/24/EC and the 2012 ECJ decision UsedSoft GmbH vs. Oracle made clear in the EC that a first sale exhausted the right to restrict licenses to [...]
Ethics Code Changes
We are circulating proposed changes k for consideration by the membership. Your voice is important to us. Please give us your comments, proposed changes, if any and offer any other changes. This is perhaps the first time in almost 25 years. That we are suggesting proposed changes is in light of the fact (as the [...]
Did You Know?
Your Sub-Licensed GE Software Options on your Diagnostic Imaging Equipment May NOT be Transferable? Find out what this could mean for you here.
OMB receives CMS rules overhauling Medicaid
The CMS has sent a sweeping finalized rule that will overhaul the managedMedicaid program to the Office of Management and Budget for review. The 653-page proposed version of the rule suggested the biggest changes in Medicaid managed-care regulations in more than a decade. It would cap insurer profits, require states to more rigorously supervise the [...]
IAMERS Reception at ECR in Vienna 4 March 2016
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I Was At The IAMERS RSNA Reception, Were You?
By: Wayne Webster, Proactics Consulting If you wanted to see and be seen at the RSNA it wasn’t going to happen on the exhibit floor. You needed to be at the IAMERS reception on Monday evening. Each year IAMERS holds its biggest event of the year at RSNA. The Intercontinental Hotel Ballroom is the venue [...]
IAMERS Barcelona Meeting
We had a great time in Barcelona and hope you did too. Here are a few images from the meeting. Do you have any to share?