Internet-based medical imaging and data storage company FiatLux Imaging has hired Max Lyon as its new CEO.

Image and information management systems provider DR Systems will be highlighting its Unity Women's Health Imaging PACS at the annual conference of the National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) from March 20-24 in Las Vegas.

Using MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy or cryoablation methods may serve as new treatment options for cancer recurrence after surgical removal of the prostate gland, according to research presented at the 35th annual Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) scientific meeting in Tampa, Fla. This is because improved detection of early prostate cancer recurrence is best seen through MRI, researchers said.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has released its Guidelines for Standard Order Sets to help organizations ensure that the elements of safe order communication have been followed when designing paper-based or electronic order sets. Focused primarily on medication orders, the guidelines also cover general aspects related to the design, approval and maintenance of all standard order sets.

GE Healthcare has unveiled the Mars virtual sleep lab, to provide a view of quantitative cardiac and sleep apnea analysis from any GE-monitored inpatient bed.

Completely integrated, standardized, interoperable healthcare technology systems will never happen, even if every healthcare entity were to adopt the same IT systems from the same vendor. Why bother to try? Because increasingly, not interoperating is not an option.

Health Care Service Corporation has announced that its CareProfile electronic health record can help physicians and healthcare facilities identify health risks for 9 million patients across the country.

ATLANTAA wireless monitoring system that automatically sends information about an abnormal heart rhythm from a device in the patients chest to the cardiologists office significantly cuts the time between when a problem arises and a treatment decision is made, according to the CONNECT trial presented today during the late-breaking clinical trials sessions at the American College of Cardiologys (ACC) 59th annual conference. Slides