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.

I have a new variation on the invocation about living in interesting times: May you attend a meeting of CMIOs shortly after the final rule for meaningful use comes out. Many years ago, Ojai, Calif., was the fictional hometown of TVs Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man. Thirty-something years after that show aired, bionic is part of the American lexicon, and in Ojai, AMDIS Physician-Computer Symposium Conference attendees were already performing the very real, yet, in some ways superhuman feat of figuring out the ramifications of the final rule for meaningful use.

Health IT company TriZetto has appointed Trace Devanny as its new CEO and member of the board of directors, effective July 19.

OJAI, Calif. CPOE implementation in any facility is challenging, but CMIOs from two pediatric hospitals said unintended consequences can be anticipated and mitigated or avoided altogether. At the AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection Symposium yesterday, James Levin, MD, PhD, CMIO of Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of the UPMC, and Christopher Longhurst, MD, CMIO of Lucile Packard Hospital in Stanford, Calif., talked about implementation and its results at their facilities.