Genetically guided personalized medicines potential will not be fully realized until it can be incorporated into routine daily healthcare. Clinical decision support could help propel it there, but research proving its effectiveness is absent, according to a review published Aug. 25 by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Early MRI for workers compensation claimants with low back pain is generally not recommended by clinical practice guidelines, yet it is ordered in about one-fifth of cases, and it is more likely when patients consult a surgeon for their initial office visit rather than a primary care physician or chiropractor, according to a study published online ahead of print in Spine.

So much for hoping for a reduction in the number of data breaches that we report on. This week, we covered three breaches.

The FBI has arrested a former employee of Florida Hospital's Celebration Health in Celebration, charging him with accessing 760,000 emergency department records over two years and selling some of them to someone who solicited for attorneys and chiropractors.

An expected spike in healthcare spending resulting from full implementation of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act will disrupt an extended period of lower than average growth, according to the California HealthCare Foundation. The philanthropic organizations 2012 healthcare almanac looks at how much is spent on healthcare, where its being spent and whos doling out the dollars.

The FDA has cleared Toshiba America Medical Systems' Vantage Titan 1.5T series, which features 8-, 16- and 32-channel MR systems.

Wright-Patterson Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, has alerted 3,800 people of a possible personal data security breach when a notebook containing their names and Social Security numbers was temporarily misplaced after a blood drive, according to a base spokesman.

Social media is emerging as a powerful healthcare tool with a variety of potential applications, but a lack of guidance on how to use it poses a risk for providers who try, according to an article published Aug. 20 by the Archives of Internal Medicine.