Maureen A. Bisognano, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will become its president and CEO, according to the Cambridge, Mass.-based organization.

Health Net and its affiliates have reached a settlement with the Connecticut Attorney General (AG) Richard Blumenthal over Health Nets failure to secure private patient medical records and financial information on nearly half a million Connecticut enrollees and promptly notify consumers endangered by the breach.

Visit durations are significantly longer for anesthetized and sedated pediatric patients undergoing MRI, and hospital costs are higher, according to a study published in the July edition of Radiology.

Self-managing blood pressure measurements via telemonitoring can help reduce systolic blood pressure levels and could be a viable care option for hypertensive patients, according to the TASMINH2 trial published online July 8 in the Lancet.

Amcom Software has released version 2.4 of its Fusion mobile event notification technology, featuring expanded support for Polycom phone systems including integration of the Kirk 8000 platform.

Faith Regional Health Services, a 166-bed acute-care facility in Norfolk, Neb., has deployed EDGE (Electronic Data to Gain Excellence), Quammen Health Care Consultants EHR powered by Siemens Healthcares Soarian Clinicals.

Oaks Diagnostics, which owns Advanced Radiology of Beverly Hills, Calif., has paid the federal government $647,000 to settle allegations that it filed false claims with Medicare for unnecessary radiological tests, reported the U.S. Attorney's Office Central District of California.

Virginia HIT, the federally designated Health IT regional extension center (REC) for Virginia, in partnership with the Center for Innovative Technology, has selected athenahealth as an EHR program partner to reach nearly 2,300 primary care physicians across the Commonwealth of Virginia.