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October 2011

Improving image quality, diagnosis with advanced viz (10/12/2011)

KLAS: Meditech v.6 is costly, 'half-baked' (10/12/2011)

Cook County adopts GE patient safety system (10/12/2011)

Survey: Hospital hiring-spree of docs to see upswing (10/12/2011)

GE Healthcare launches surface MRI coils (10/11/2011)

Med device salespeople urged to better understand hospital needs (10/11/2011)

Mercom posts strong Q3 numbers in health IT sector (10/11/2011)

Grassley questions HRSA public database shutdown decision (10/11/2011)

St. Jude updates mobile notifications to remote patient monitoring (10/11/2011)

GAO: Additional security needed to address cloud computing concerns (10/11/2011)

Study: Family history has greater role in Alzheimers than previously thought (10/11/2011)

Army cardiologist fined after accepting funds from Guidant (10/10/2011)

Survey: CIOs now driven more by budgets, collaboration (10/10/2011)

U.S. biopharma, medical device firms take an investment hit (10/10/2011)

Commonwealth Fund releases framework for healthcare policy (10/10/2011)

CMS: 20.5M take advantage of free wellness, screening visits (10/10/2011)

UCSF nabs $5M grant to develop new MRI technology (10/10/2011)

Former Medtronic CEO exits retirement early to helm Immucor (10/10/2011)

HHS receives recommendations on clinical metrics (10/08/2011)

Smartphones can become health monitors (10/08/2011)

Feature: Putting practices in place to curb HF readmissions (10/07/2011)

CSC faces fraudulent charges on nationwide U.K. IT contract (10/07/2011)

Stanford breach affects 20K, suit seeking $20M in damages (10/07/2011)

JACR: Appropriate use is top strategy to optimize rad dose in abdominal CT (10/07/2011)

FDA green-lights GEs Discovery MR (10/07/2011)

Basu moves from White House to vRad (10/07/2011)

Health Affairs: New framework to join public health, healthcare agencies afoot (10/06/2011)

Merge aligns with Dell on cloud-based services (10/06/2011)

NCI grants Harris $37M contract for clinical data management (10/06/2011)

NEJM: Healthcare reform jurisdictional issues are not cut-and-dry (10/06/2011)

Survey: Change 510(k) process, don't abandon it (10/06/2011)

Survey: Cloud computing implementation low (10/06/2011)

AHIMA: Failing to see healthcare quality as a science is 'huge mistake' (10/05/2011)

JAMA: Bedside clinicians played key role in tele-ICU study (10/05/2011)

Report: MRI trials safe for children except with contrast, sedation (10/05/2011)

JAMIA: Duke unlocks cohort identification potential (10/05/2011)

Lancet: MRI technique may open window for stroke therapy (10/05/2011)

Verizon, Duke to tackle health IT efforts as one (10/05/2011)

Stanford to defend itself against class action suit on data breach (10/05/2011)

Merge seeks to sweeten image exchange (10/05/2011)

NEJM: Patient-centered gov't institute sets to raise healthcare bar (10/04/2011)

AHIMA: ICD-11 on horizon, but providers must get through ICD-10 first (10/04/2011)

NCQA kickstarts patient feedback program for medical home (10/04/2011)

HIMSS creates ICD-10 readiness pilot, calls for vendor participation (10/04/2011)

NQF names Kennedy VP for health IT (10/04/2011)

FDA exec takes seat on AAMI standards program (10/04/2011)

AHIMA Keynote: Leading at the speed of trust (10/04/2011)

Frawley named AHIMA's president-elect for 2012 (10/04/2011)

KLAS: Are EDIS living up to expectations? (10/03/2011)

Illinois pros form HIE, select Medicity for platform (10/03/2011)

Va. AG appeals healthcare reform decision to Supreme Court (10/03/2011)

Philips releases latest telehealth tool (10/03/2011)

FDA clears diaphragm system to treat Lou Gehrigs disease (10/03/2011)

Lancet: Intraoperative MRI helps optimizes brain tumor resection (10/01/2011)

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