Agfa HealthCare and Barco have formed a partnership to refresh the diagnostic display systems running Impax PACS.

Alpharetta, Ga.-based Sanuwave Health has appointed Ron Sparks, a 34-year veteran of the medical device industry, to the companys board of directors.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego, launched what is purported to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system in the U.S.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, is establishing a new system of records to support its shared savings programs, the first of which are the Medicare Shared Savings Program and Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model.

Healthcare market research firm Kalorama has reported a $7.1 billion market for remote patient monitoring in 2010 in the U.S., and expects an annual 25.4 percent growth rate, reaching $22.2 billion by 2015.

To better understand the barriers associated with adoption and use of e-prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), a practice recently established by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Cindy Parks Thomas, PhD, a professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and colleagues in a Sept. 21 article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, described their research on e-prescribing of controlled substances.

Breast imaging reports generated using speech recognition were eight times as likely as reports dictated with conventional transcription to contain major errors, according to a study published in the October issue of American Journal of Roentgenology. The researchers estimated that nearly 25 percent of the reports in the study contained a major error that could have affected understanding of the report or altered patient care.

Medtronic has successfully sued NuVasive for patent infringement to the tune of $101.2 million. A jury awarded the judgment over claims related to medical devices used in spinal surgery, according to numerous reports.