Although 90 percent of orthopedic and urology residents did not change CT ordering patterns after attending a one-hour lecture about radiation exposure, radiologists should be encouraged to give radiation lectures to referring physician groups, according to the authors of a study published in the September issue of Academic Radiology.

athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass.-based developer of cloud-based practice management, EHR and care coordination services to medical groups, launched an online dashboard to provide insight into a physicians performance in achieving the meaningful use criteria.

Nuance Communications and MedMaster Mobile have released the MedMaster Mobility iPad application through Nuance Healthcares medical speech recognition.

A new imaging technology designed to predict whether a childs skull bones are likely to grow back together too quickly after surgery is being developed by researchers in the Center for Pediatric Healthcare Technology Innovation at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Also in the works are new technologies that may delay the premature fusion process.

The approval of an MR-conditional pacemaker system opens the door to imaging patients with implanted cardiac devices. In order to ensure a safe study, radiologists need to understand and communicate the specific limitations of scanning with these devices, according to an opinion published in the September issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.

Verizon is adding new features and capabilities to its healthcare identity services to help healthcare organizations combat rising incidents of identity theft through access to digitized health information.

Sodexo, the food-and-facilities multinational headquartered in Paris, has acquired 100 percent of Puras do Brasil for an enterprise value of approximately 525 million ($737.7 million).

Carestream Molecular Imaging has added the In-Vivo Xtreme to its family of multimodal imaging products for preclinical research. Xtreme will be introduced at the World Molecular Imaging Congress Sept 7-10 in San Diego.