iSalus Healthcare, a web-based EMR and practice management software company, has released an iPhone mobile application that allows doctors to access patient records and office information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.