North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System, a 15-hospital system in New York, has announced there is an ongoing investigation with law enforcement authorities involving the identity theft of approximately 100 patients from North Shore University Hospital, a 804-bed tertiary care facility in Manhasset, N.Y.

Nelly Tan, MD, and Sean P. Zivin, MD, have been selected by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) as the recipients of resident travel grants, sponsored by Fujifilm Medical Systems.

Researchers from Childrens Health Services Research at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, found automating the process of screening and alerting the physician to those who screened positive significantly decreased the burden of identifying relevant guidelines and screening of patient families in our clinics, according to an article published online April 16 in Pediatrics.

Invivo Molecular Imaging has become the first commercial provider of mobile PET/CT imaging services to purchase Siemens Healthcare's Biograph 16 TruePoint PET/CT scanner in a mobile configuration.   

St. Jude Medical has reported a 1 percent increase in sales, but an overall $21 million decrease in net earnings for the first quarter of 2012, which ended March 31.

It seems you cant turn around without being asked to link one platform of your digital life to another platform. Whether its needing a Facebook account to join Spotify, allowing Twitter to post notifications through an iPhone or going through an Outlook website portal to access your professional email off-site, theres a lot of personal data being thrown around out there.

The percentage of doctors using electronic records has doubled in the last two years, said Doug Fridsma, MD, director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), at the ICD-10 Summit sponsored by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

The use of home telehealth programs reducing emergency department (ED) is being debated in the latest Archives of Internal Medicine.