The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has submitted the first of two reports on the National Quality Foundation's (NQF) progress in meeting the five Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 mandated duties related to quality measures, the costs and fixed fees NQF has reported, and what NQF and the Department of Health and Human Services do to help ensure NQF's reported costs are proper.

HealthPartners, a U.S. consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization, has licensed Diversinets MobiSecure Health platform to facilitate mobile communications with its 1.3 million subscribers.

South Shore Hospital of South Weymouth, Mass., has reported that back-up computer files for approximately 800,000 individuals that could contain personally identifiable personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company.

Home monitoring with automatic daily surveillance can offer safe, early detection of cardiac events in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) compared with standard follow-up methods, according to a TRUST trial published online July 12 in Circulation.

Siemens Healthcare has integrated its digital radiography technology, Ysio, with Riverain Medicals SoftView chest imaging offering.

While Royal Philips Electronics reported a net income of 217 million ($281 million U.S.) higher than the second quarter of 2009, its Philips Healthcare unit also experienced a 4 percent sales increase in the 2010 second quarter compared with year-over-year quarter.

While General Electric reported a net earnings increase of 19 percent in the second quarter of 2010 ($3.2 billion versus $2.7 billion in the 2009 second quarter) and a 4 percent decrease in revenues, its GE Healthcare unit recorded a 3 percent increase in revenue over the 2009 second quarter revenues.

OJAI, Calif.--Probably no one goes to medical school intent on becoming a CMIO, said Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, assistant clinical professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., during a discussion at the AMDIS Physician-Computer Symposium earlier this week. However, the interest is there and must be cultivated to meet the growing demand for medical informatics skills, she said.