Cardinal Health, a healthcare services company, has appointed Donald M. Casey Jr. to lead its $9 billion medical products and services business, effective April 16.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced a proposed rule that would establish a unique health plan identifier under HIPAA. The proposed rule also delays required compliance by one yearfrom Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014for new codes used to classify diseases and health problems.

Researchers from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) proposed a data-driven approach to utilize confidence intervals (CIs) to select the most appropriate model from a pool of candidates to assess the individual patient's clinical condition, in hopes of improving personalized risk estimation for clinical decision support.

The Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) notified the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) of an information breach on a DTS server that houses Medicaid claims this week. The initial breach appears to have taken place on Friday, March 30. During the breach, information was accessed from approximately 24,000 claims.

Philips Healthcare and three Dutch academic healthcare research institutionsUniversity Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University and Eindhoven University of Technologyhave signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a public-private consortium focused on developing new methods for disease diagnosis and treatment based on medical imaging.

The addition of a screening ultrasound or MRI exam to annual mammography in women with an increased risk of breast cancer and dense breast tissue resulted in a higher rate of detection of incident breast cancers, according to a study published April 4 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors noted downsides to both modalities, reinforcing the notion there may be no easy answer to the question of how to best deliver supplemental screening to women with an increased risk of breast cancer. 

The University of Wisconsin (UW) is offering a new online Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management and Technology degree by a consortium of UW campuses and coordinated by University of WisconsinExtension.

Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging Center in Las Vegas has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems Vantage Titan 3T.