Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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Alabama extends Medicaid management deal with HP

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has signed a $135 million, eight-year technology services contract with the Alabama Medicaid Agency, which oversees the Medicaid program for more than 900,000 state residents.

Medtronic posts strong earnings, but guidance dropped due to shaky sales

Medtronics financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2011, which ended July 30, revealed a double-digit increase in net earnings, despite a slight drop in revenues.

KLAS: RIS gains ground through interoperability, functionality

While RIS purchases traditionally have taken a back seat to EMR and PACS decisions, new products entering the RIS market and vendors expanding their EMR and PACS client bases with integrated technologies suggest that RIS are taking a renewed priority in purchasing decisions and being included in discussions surrounding meaningful uses electronic information exchange requirements, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.

Study: 96% of data breaches avoidable

A full 96 percent of data breaches are avoidable through simple or intermediate controls, according to 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report, research conducted by Verizons Business Risk team in cooperation with the U.S. Secret Service.

JGIM: E-tracking system can improve OB/GYN follow-up

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine report that physicians who use an automated EMR tracking system to follow-up on patients with an abnormal Pap test could increase the number of women who achieved diagnostic resolution and have women achieve resolution in less time than using traditional methods.

Oridion, IMI team for patient monitoring devices

Medical device company Oridion has entered into an agreement with IMI, a medical equipment distributor in Japan. The agreement will extend Oridion's presence in the Japanese market with its line of Microstream capnography monitoring products.

Conn. AG investigates Yale med school data breach

The office of Connecticut's Attorney General (AG) is investigating a data breach at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., after the institute reported the theft of a laptop containing personal health information involving as many as 1,000 individuals.

DMS Health Technologies lands mobile MRI service contract in Southeast

Diagnostic imaging services provider DMS Health Technologies has signed a contract with Hardtner Medical Center in Olla, La. to provide mobile MRI services to the facility on Saturdays.

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