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Report: Healthcare orgs not ready to keep patient data secure
By Cynthia E. Keen
Most healthcare organizations are underprepared to protect patient privacy and secure patient data as new uses for digital health information emerge and access to confidential patient information expands, according to a report published by Price Waterhouse Cooper's Health Research Institute in New York City.
September 26, 2011
Clinical informatics gets board-certified status
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Board of Medical Specialties has approved the field of clinical informatics as a new subspecialty for physicians, according to an announcement made by the American Medical Informatics Association.
September 25, 2011
UCSD launches storage cloud for academia
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) San Diego Supercomputer Center has launched a massive cloud storage system designed for academic users.
September 22, 2011
Study: Speech recognition produces errors in breast reports
By Kate Madden Yee
Breast imaging reports generated with automated speech recognition software are eight times more likely to contain major errors than those generated with conventional dictation transcription, according to a new study in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
September 20, 2011
Thrall: Healthcare IT can help rads tackle radiation exposure
By Cynthia E. Keen
NEW YORK CITY - Concern about radiation dose from medical imaging exams makes it imperative that radiologists proactively find ways to keep dose exposure to a minimum -- and healthcare IT can help, according to Dr. James H. Thrall, who spoke on the topic this week at the New York Medical Imaging Informatics Symposium.
September 19, 2011
Day 2 of FDA mobile apps hearing; RSNA Image Share; Calif. breast density bill advances
By Brian Casey
September 14, 2011
Zotec merges with Medical Business Service
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical billing firm Zotec Partners is merging with Medical Business Service of Coral Gables, FL.
September 14, 2011
RSNA's Image Share project hopes to repeat DICOM success
By Erik L. Ridley
In the late 1990s, radiology societies helped encourage vendor adoption of the DICOM 3.0 standard, a milestone that ultimately sparked a revolution in digital image management. Now, RSNA hopes its Image Share project will do the same for the nascent field of image sharing.
September 14, 2011
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FDA public workshop weighs clinical decision support
By Erik L. Ridley
The final day of a two-day public forum on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulation of mobile medical apps addressed clinical decision-support (CDS) software. It's a tricky subject given the differences in CDS tools, levels of patient risk, and even the very definition of what constitutes a CDS application.
September 13, 2011
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McKesson launches new products
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare information systems firm McKesson has released two new products for small, independent primary care practices.
September 13, 2011
Lumedx releases new ECG software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiovascular software developer Lumedx has released its new HealthView Chest Pain Management product.
September 12, 2011
FDA opens forum to explore regulation of mobile medical apps
By Cynthia E. Keen
How should the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulate mobile medical apps? More than 20 experts gave the FDA their opinions on Monday, the first day of a two-day public forum in the agency's Rockville, MD, headquarters. But as many questions were raised as recommendations posed.
September 12, 2011
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