Jay D. Miller has joined Zonare Medical Systems as president and CEO, as the companys former CEO, Donald J. Southard, has resigned.

Those dog days of summer? They might be greyhounds. As we enter July, theres no summertime lull in sight for the health IT news cycle.The final rule for meaningful use still lurks, and the official word is we should expect it any day. The word from the field, as PwC found, is that 80 percent of hospital CIOs are concerned or very concerned they will not be able to demonstrate meaningful use of EHRs within the federally established deadline of 2015. The Leapfrog Group warned  that CPOE with oversight could be harmful to patients health.

Handheld device sales for healthcare use reached $8.2 billion globally in 2009 and are expected to increase 7 percent for the next five years as physicians and hospitals purchase new IT systems, according to a report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.

Without proper monitoring, health IT such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems could inadvertently harm patients, according to a new report by the Leapfrog Group.

InSite One has released InDex software v6.1 enterprise archiving tools for sharing patient data, including patient identity matching and reconciliation features.

Diffusion-weighted imaging and glandular tissuenormalized apparent diffusion coefficient assessment can improve the characterization of breast lesions beyond the description provided by conventional 3D T1-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced 3T MRI, according to results of a study published in the July edition of Radiology.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened a national coverage analysis June 28 for MRI for patients with implanted cardioverter-defibrillators or pacemakers in clinical studies.

MR images acquired ten years after anterior cruciate ligament and meniscal injuries showed surgical repair did not decrease risk for localized knee osteoarthritis, according to study results published June 29 in Radiology.