With hundreds of thousands of devices on the market, malfunctions are always a possibility. This week, Boston Scientifics Cognis and Teligen defibrillators are under fire after it was found that the transformer component may malfunction and may have led to a patient death.

Source: Radiology 2012;263:537-546Iterative reconstruction of pediatric chest and abdominal CT images nearly halved radiation dose, while maintaining image quality and diagnostic confidence, according to a study published in the May issue of Radiology.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has alerted the FDA that, if the agency is to bring its IT environment up to snuff, it needs to take three essential steps: develop a comprehensive inventory of its IT systems, implement an integrated master schedule for a particular modernization effort already underway and identify opportunities to get better at sharing data with internal and external partners.

Weve all been there, whether as physician champions or CMIOs, we are involved in the selection, design and implementation of a new system. Everyone (except possibly some of the end users) is excited about the system and new features.

It seems that waiting until the last minute is a universal problem. Take for example ICD-10. Despite the fact that the healthcare community has known about the Oct. 1, 2013, compliance deadline for years, survey results released by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange recently revealed that most facilities are not ready.

In June 2010, Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson signed an executive order creating the Kansas Health Information Exchange (KHIE), a quasi-public agency to oversee the activities of health information organizations (HIOs) that provide health information exchange (HIE) services in the state.

Were moving well beyond rules and alerts smacking us in the face during order entry. Clinical decision support is evolving and changing in significant ways. Several issues are driving those changes.

Invivo Molecular Imaging has become the first commercial provider of mobile PET/CT imaging services to purchase Siemens Healthcare's Biograph 16 TruePoint PET/CT scanner in a mobile configuration.