Health IT company Heart Imaging Technologies is partnering with Johns Hopkins University on a project that could equip a small physician’s practice with the same medical imaging capabilities as the largest hospitals.The Nationwide Health Information Network, created by the federal HITECH Act, aims to develop ways to securely exchange health information over the Internet. The [...]

NIH budget cuts are a real possibility this year. Looking back at 2010, Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. organizations in funding from the National Institutes of Health last year with $686 million. California, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas were that states that received the most federal dollars.

Case Western Reserve University ranked 26th among U.S. universities in federal research and development funding in 2009, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The much-hyped best hospital rankings from U.S. News and World Report are out again and they look a lot like they did last year.Topping the list once again is Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore — as it has for the last 20 years — followed by Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The only movement in [...]

Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis were among the elite institutions. For the first time, the magazine factored in data about patient safety along with reputation, death rate and “care-related factors” such as nursing and patient services.

Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, who led the National Institutes of Health through most of the George W. Bush administration, has been appointed to the trustee board of Mayo Clinic. An Algerian native, Zerhouni came to the United States more than 30 years ago, becoming a multimillionaire after inventing several devices as a radiologist at Johns Hopkins.