New information about the quality of care available in U.S. outpatient and emergency departments, including how well hospitals care for patients with heart attacks and protect outpatients from surgical infections, was added to the Department of the Health and Human Services website.

Medical imaging developer DR Systems has added a new capability to its cloud-based technology platform, Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), the eMix Preview.

With all the hype about meaningful use (MU) and the drive for EHRs, its easy to lose sight of the fact that EHRs, CPOE and some other watchwords of MU have been around for a while. Just ask the experts.

Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise 5.5 inpatient, ambulatory and emergency care EHR combination has earned premarket conditional certification for 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT).

Lincoln Medical and Mental Center of the Bronx, New York, has notified patients that several CDs containing patient information were lost, although the facility said it has no knowledge of improper data access has occurred as a result of the loss.

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.