Recent studies highlight some areas, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, in which advanced visualization can impact costs, diagnosis and treatment.

NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) has started shipping its Dome GX4MP radiology display, a 30-inch system offering multi-modality viewing in color and grayscale.

Yet another hospital has suffered a data breach. The administration at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital (OHSU) in Portland is sending letters to the families of 702 pediatric patients after a USB drive containing some of their patient information was stolen. In total, data for more than 14,000 patients was stored on the drive, along with information for about 200 OHSU employees.

Selected from nearly four dozen applications submitted from across the U.S. and Canada by a specially formed advisory committee of mHealth innovation thought leaders, 10 mHealth start-up companies presented at the inaugural World Congress mHealth Innovation Exchange Conference in Boston.

Natural language processing (NLP) applications could become a powerful aid to clinical researchers, according to a study published July 21 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. At Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC), researchers built a SAS-based NLP tool that was able to successfully identify primary and recurrent cancer diagnoses in data from the healthcare systems EHRs.

Less than one year after it was discovered that almost 20,000 patient names and diagnoses were published on a public website where they remained for a full year, Stanford Hospitals & Clinics and the School of Medicine has suffered another data breach. A password-protected computer containing 2,500 patients' information was stolen from a physician's locked office.

The cost of telemedicine intensive care unit (tele-ICU) program implementation is substantial and the impact of these programs on hospital costs or profits is unclear, according to a study in the July issue of the CHEST Journal. Thus, the study authors cautioned administrators to carefully weigh the clinical and economic aspects of tele-ICU programs when considering investment in this technology.

GE Healthcare has appointed two new company officers. Randy A. Fox, MBA, has been appointed vice president and chief information officer (CIO), and Karim Karti has been appointed vice president and chief marketing officer.