The bad news: Almost three-quarters of Americans worry about medical mistakes. The good news: Some 68 percent trust technology to allay their fears.

A look at decision support outside of healthcare offers new insights that are generalizable to healthcare provider decisions, according to research published by Medical Informatics and Decision Making on August 17.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, has experienced its second data breach this year, this time as a result of a wayward USB thumb drive.

There is ongoing debate over the money-saving potential of EHRs, with some research showing their ability to reduce provider costs and some showing their ability to bust provider budgets. The lack of consistency suggests past research has inappropriately framed the debate, according to an August working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

More than half of U.S. hospitals, 54 percent, plan to purchase products designed to help integrate medical devices with EMRs over the next two years.

An unauthorized user gained access to and encrypted the server of a small Midwestern surgical practice and essentially held the information hostage in exchange for the password needed to regain access to the server.

Amid its second quarterly results announcement, BG Medicine said that it is withdrawing the CardioScore diagnostic test from the FDA 510(k) submission process.

Researchers at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., have demonstrated the feasibility of a wearable sensor that they designed to passively recognize people. If successful, the prototype they hope to build from their study will curtail mistaken-identity errors in, and malicious hacking of, mobile and wearable medical devices.