Ohios eight childrens hospitals are spearheading a national effort to improve quality of care and patient safety in pediatric hospitals.

Causing a flurry of media attention, St. Jude Medical is seeking a retraction of the study published in the Heart Rhythm Societys HeartRhythm Journal by Robert G. Hauser, MD, et al. While Medtronic refuted St. Jude's independent search to Cardiovascular Business, Hauser, senior consulting cardiologist at Minneapolis Heart Institute, said he did not have any comment at this time.

Much of the advanced visualization news in the past month has been related to colon cancer since March was colon cancer awareness month.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced a proposed rule that would establish a unique health plan identifier under HIPAA. The proposed rule also delays required compliance by one yearfrom Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014for new codes used to classify diseases and health problems.

Spacelabs has been cleared to sell two new products in the U.S., an anesthesia system and a compact patient monitor.

A 67-bed, 129-year-old hospital in northeastern Pennsylvania has been effectively shut down by that states health department, its patients transported to other facilities, after officials discovered serious deficiencies and regulatory violations.

Researchers from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) proposed a data-driven approach to utilize confidence intervals (CIs) to select the most appropriate model from a pool of candidates to assess the individual patient's clinical condition, in hopes of improving personalized risk estimation for clinical decision support.

The Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) notified the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) of an information breach on a DTS server that houses Medicaid claims this week. The initial breach appears to have taken place on Friday, March 30. During the breach, information was accessed from approximately 24,000 claims.