The diet and activity levels of patients may be improved through use of mobile technology, remote coaching and financial incentives, according to findings published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

NEC Display Solutions has promoted President Pierre Richer to CEO.

lifeIMAGE is releasing certain open application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be used by developers of healthcare IT or imaging devices to enable the secure exchange of medical images and related patient records directly from its software.

Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto has launched a public-private program to develop and commercialize four new types of image-guided treatment and monitoring systems to provide minimally invasive treatments for patients with cardiac diseases and cancer. The technologies include a hybrid catheter, two MRI-based technologies and a system to monitor therapies.

The Federal Communications Commissions five bipartisan commissioners have given a unanimous Absolutely on a proposal to allocate airwaves for medical body area networks (MBANs), opening the door for the medical device industry to charge ahead with MBAN products in development.

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) has been rolling out an ambulatory EMR across our network-owned practices over the past several years. Most implementations have gone wellwith the expected resistance and temporary decrease in productivity. But some have resulted in prolonged negative impact on productivity and very unhappy providers.

You may be celebrating high school, college or like me, preschool graduations this month, but we all know there are ongoing chances to continue learning outside of the school environment. One such opportunity is the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) 21st Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium, held late this month in Ojai, Calif.

A review of one radiology practices diagnostic lumbar spine MRI exams has shown that the number of negative findings is 86 percent higher on exams ordered by a physician with a financial interest in the MRI equipment used, adding fuel to the assertion that self-referrals lead to overutilization, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.