Radisphere has landed a $10 million equity investment as the radiology company looks to expand its community hospital customer base.Radiology outsourcing groups like Cleveland-area Radisphere have become increasingly popular with investors in recent years. The trend is being driven largely by technology advances and healthcare cost pressures, which have combined to create a lucrative market [...]

PPD routinely strikes strategic partnerships with pharmaceutical companies. But the clinical research organization has entered a different kind of partnership in Scotland with the goal of streamlining the clinical trials process and speeding the regulatory process for new therapies.Wilmington, North Carolina-based PPD has entered an alliance with the National Health Services’s Research Scotland (NRS), the [...]

Cancerlife provides a social platform for cancer center patients to communicate with supporters such as friends, family, people who share their disease and physicians. It also includes a journal to document how they are feeling. But what sets Cancerlife apart from rivals, says president and co-founder Charles Coltman, is that patients can track the side effects they experience from their medications, allowing them to work with their physicians to better tailor the level and types of medication they take.

When we last heard from Foundation Radiology Group, the radiology outsourcing company had raised $1 million last November, funding that was revealed in a regulatory document.Now the company has filed an amended regulatory document with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that indicates it’s raised another $1 million.AdvertisementThat’s consistent with Pittsburgh-based Foundation’s practices of not [...]

A startup that’s developed a device to better secure intravenous lines has landed its first major customer.Linebacker said winning its first big client would help the startup build credibility for its eponymous product and expand to other healthcare systems, according to a statement from the Columbus-area company.The company didn’t have to look far for the [...]

About 11 percent of doctors have knowingly lied to a patient in the last year, according to a new survey published in Health Affairs.Reasons why doctors lie to patients vary. Nearly 20 percent of physicians said they had not fully disclosed an error to a patient due to fear of malpractice litigation. More than 55 [...]

Health and wellness necessarily imply a proactive approach and not a reactive one.Eager to reflect that focus, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, one of Minnesota’s top health systems, is undergoing a name makeover, reports the Star Tribune. From now on the health system will be known as Allina Health.The name change is part of an overall [...]

An executive hired last year by Cleveland Clinic Innovations was faulted for destroying documents, misusing public funds for personal expenses and creating an uncomfortable work environment by having an office romance in his previous job at a Kansas economic development group, according to a recently released audit by the state of Kansas.However, the $960,000, 900-page [...]

Having several medical schools and hospitals in one region can lead to some keen competition, particularly when it comes to retaining staff. In the latest reflection of that competition and of the growing trend of translational medicine, Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia has poached the director of the Philadelphia-based Jefferson University Hospitals’ Center for Translational [...]

Among the three most common types of prostate cancer treatment, external beam radiation therapy is the most toxic and costly, according to a Cleveland Clinic researcher.Dr. Jay Ciezki and colleagues analyzed the Medicare records of more than 137,000 men who received one of three prostate cancer treatments — external beam radiation therapy; prostatectomy, or removal [...]