The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Zoll Medical for its Propaq MD monitor /defibrillator, a device that will be utilized by the military and air medical operators.

  Mobile healthcare technology is delivering decision support right now, but its not all for clinicians, according to panelists at the World Congress second annual leadership summit on mHealth in Boston last week.

Cerner has reported strong revenues for the 2010 second quarter, which ended July 3, with its revenue at $456 million, up 13 percent compared with $403.8 million in the year-ago period. Also, its net earnings saw a double-digit increase over the same period last year.

Quality Systems, the parent company of NextGen Healthcare, has announced the results of operations for its fiscal 2011 first quarter, which ended June 30.

McKesson has reported that revenues for the first fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, were $27.5 billion compared to $26.7 billion a year ago.

iCAD, a developer of advanced image analysis and workflow technologies for the identification of cancer, has reported less income losses in its financial results for the second quarter, ending June 30.

The founder of MEDecision, David St. Clair, will suspend his retirement to re-join the company as CEO, replacing Scott A. Storrer, who has resigned to pursue other interests.

Seeing the final rule for meaningful use published in the Federal Register on Wednesday must have been gratifying to its creators. After all, as Karen Trudel, deputy director of the Office of E-Health Standards & Services at CMS, stated it, we started this process in February 2009. In government terms, being able to go from a piece of statute to an 800-plus-page final rule in that amount of time is something like the speed of light.