Hospitals have been using computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs) for decades, but the technology has been improving over the years to place a wealth of organizational insight into clinical engineers collective hands.

The FBI has arrested a former employee of Florida Hospital's Celebration Health in Celebration, charging him with accessing 760,000 emergency department records over two years and selling some of them to someone who solicited for attorneys and chiropractors.

Following its April go-ahead on Sotera Wireless ViSi mobile monitor, a stand-alone device for continuous observation of vital signs, the FDA has extended the 510(k) approval to the full ViSi system.

An expected spike in healthcare spending resulting from full implementation of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act will disrupt an extended period of lower than average growth, according to the California HealthCare Foundation. The philanthropic organizations 2012 healthcare almanac looks at how much is spent on healthcare, where its being spent and whos doling out the dollars.

The FDA has cleared Toshiba America Medical Systems' Vantage Titan 1.5T series, which features 8-, 16- and 32-channel MR systems.

Wright-Patterson Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, has alerted 3,800 people of a possible personal data security breach when a notebook containing their names and Social Security numbers was temporarily misplaced after a blood drive, according to a base spokesman.

Social media is emerging as a powerful healthcare tool with a variety of potential applications, but a lack of guidance on how to use it poses a risk for providers who try, according to an article published Aug. 20 by the Archives of Internal Medicine.

The CMIO Leadership Forum presents a two-day, interactive leadership forum on "Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine," Oct.3-5 in Chicago.