Patient-coordinated electronic exchange could remove privacy and security doubts surrounding the sharing of imaging results, according to research published August 11 by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

An unauthorized user gained access to and encrypted the server of a small Midwestern surgical practice and essentially held the information hostage in exchange for the password needed to regain access to the server.

Amid its second quarterly results announcement, BG Medicine said that it is withdrawing the CardioScore diagnostic test from the FDA 510(k) submission process.

Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support (CDS) improve order set usability and decrease providers cognitive workload while increasing adherence to established clinical guidelines, according to research published in the September issue of Pediatrics.

Researchers at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., have demonstrated the feasibility of a wearable sensor that they designed to passively recognize people. If successful, the prototype they hope to build from their study will curtail mistaken-identity errors in, and malicious hacking of, mobile and wearable medical devices.

Siemens Healthcare has signed an agreement to incorporate Radimetrics' radiation dose management and reporting system into syngo Workflow RIS.

This weeks top stories bring two more hospital data breaches, both at large healthcare facilities on the West Coast.

Positron has consolidated the operations of its radiopharmaceutical and radioisotope businesses, some of which were located at its Crown Point, Ind., facility to its Lubbock, Texas site.