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Is your office copier a hole in your HIPAA security plan?
By Cynthia E. Keen
The lowly office copy machine can be a treasure trove of data vulnerable to identity theft and a potentially massive healthcare privacy rule violation. Many healthcare providers are scrambling to shut this security hole following televised reports of patient data found on copiers discarded by medical facilities.
June 1, 2010
CAD helps cardiac CT readers; software reduces low-yield studies
By Brian Casey
May 31, 2010
Merge launches new products
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT and advanced visualization developer Merge Healthcare has released several new products.
May 31, 2010
Order-entry system reduces inappropriate outpatient exams
By Kate Madden Yee
Changing a facility's order-entry system -- even slightly -- can dramatically decrease the rate of low-yield imaging exams and increase the percentage of tests personally ordered by physicians, according to a new study published in the June issue of Radiology.
May 31, 2010
Medsphere nabs NM contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare informatics developer Medsphere Systems has won a contract with a New Mexico hospital for its OpenVista Radiology electronic health record package.
May 27, 2010
Tenn. BCBS completes hard drive theft remediation
By Cynthia E. Keen
Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) of Tennessee announced that it has completed its audit, remediation, and notification process for nearly 1 million of its members whose identification and health information had potentially been compromised after a theft of hard drives from a training center last fall.
May 25, 2010
Zotec aligns with Medical Business Service
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical billing services provider Zotec Partners has inked a contract to provide its products and services to Medical Business Service in Cocoa, FL.
May 23, 2010
New software facilitates mining of image data
By Erik L. Ridley
Images stored on PACS networks contain a veritable treasure trove of information that could be invaluable in research and clinical practice. To gain easier access to those nuggets, researchers from Luxembourg have developed a software framework that facilitates data mining from DICOM image headers.
May 23, 2010
Merge inks tech deal with Cato
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT and advanced visualization developer Merge Healthcare has entered into a technology agreement with Cato Research.
May 19, 2010
McKesson adds practice management orders
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT firm McKesson has received four orders for its Revenue Management Solutions radiology billing and practice management offering.
May 19, 2010
CMS awards HIT payment database contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to develop a national repository database to record electronic health record incentive payment processing transactions.
May 19, 2010
Agfa inks large Brazilian order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has received an order from the Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagen (FIDI), a large diagnostic imaging group in São Paulo, Brazil.
May 18, 2010
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