CardioNet, a wireless medical technology company that focuses on the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, has fallen deeper into net losses due to falling sales, as reported in its results for the 2010 first quarter, which ended March 31.

Hospital Laennec in Creil, France, has installed a 1.5T MR system, the wide-bore Optima MR450w, from GE Healthcare.

New payment and healthcare delivery models require a fresh examination of fraud and abuse risk, according to Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), during his keynote address at the Healthcare Compliance Association's Annual Compliance Institute last month.

iCAD has reported that it lost $1.2 million in the first quarter of 2010, compared with the $1 million net loss posted in the same quarter a year ago.

BOSTONBetter monitoring is needed to understand how EMRs and health information exchange (HIE) impact the patients experience of care and best practices need to be shared to improve these technologies, Barbra G. Rabson, executive director at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners reported Thursday at the Health IT: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and Improving Quality national conference, hosted by Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick.

Its been an eventful week for CONNECT, the open source software project that aims to enable secure exchange of health information for the Nationwide Health Information Network initiative.

CT utilization as a percentage of cross-sectional imaging studies has decreased steadily since 2003 in pediatric facilities across North America, concluded a recent article published in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Boston Scientific has reported sharply wider net losses for 2010 first quarter, which ended March 31.