GE Healthcare and AirStrip Technologies have teamed up to put data from GE Healthcare's MUSE Cardiology Information System onto iPhones and iPads via the Airstrip Cardiology mobile application.

Mobile devices have played a part in quality improvement at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH), a healthcare organization serving 1.2 million people across Eastern Ontario. Using these devices is part of TOHs strategy to put best practices to work, regardless of where they originate, to help clinicians improve care, said Dale Potter, senior vice president and CIO at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) at last weeks mHealth Initiative Conference in Chicago.

NEW ORLEANS--A project in Minnesota that seeks to change lifestyle behavior to prevent coronary heart disease has seen a 24 percent reduction in heart attacks in just a few quarters, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting.

Iron Media has released its MD-oriented voice-over-IP (VoIP) system for connecting medical professionals, patients and families via video, voice and chat capabilities.

BG Medicine and Boston Scientific have entered into a research agreement to evaluate the use of galectin-3 as a screening tool for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and will use data from the MADIT-CRT trial for their assessment.

In the midst of a week that included both the further mapping of meaningful use and the release of the proposed rules for ACOs, the message of the mHealth Initiative Conference in Chicago may have been easy to miss. However, it shouldnt be ignored. Careful steps are vital to move the national health IT strategy forward in the same direction, but DIY has a placeformal or notin improving healthcare as well.

MRI scans of teenage males with conduct disorder showed reduced amygdala volume in adolescent males diagnosed with early-onset and adolescent-onset conduct disorders, suggesting a potential neurological basis for both subtypes. The study, published in the April issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, also reported that the amygdala and insula were strikingly smaller in teenagers diagnosed with conduct disorder and that greater reductions in insula volume correlated with more severe behavior problems.

IT companies need to bring in doctors and other healthcare stakeholders in order to ensure that new technologies and applications are actually useful--a process which is currently fragmented at best, according to a paper published in a recent special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.