Sixty-two percent of physicians surveyed are pessimistic about U.S. physicians' ability to practice independently or in small groups in the future, according to a study conducted by health IT company athenahealth and the Physician Sentiment Index from Sermo, an online physician community.

A newly appointed CMIO raised the question during a HIMSS Physician IT Symposium, but its being asked everywhere: With the pressure on for electronic record implementation, How do we help physicians to overcome change fatigue?

Clinical data repositories (CDR) have been the stepchild of the EHR for a long time. The CDR has traditionally been a research component that, after you dealt with billing and all the day-to-day information management of an EHR, you put together as a database that allowed you to look at the data across patients for planning, for financial reasons or research. But it was often done late.

Stereotactic radiosurgery is an appropriate form of therapy for patients who have one to four brain metastases, no larger than 4 cm in diameter, from metastatic cancer, according to an article published March 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Riverain Medical, a computer-aided detection company of image interpretation assistance, has received FDA clearance for its SoftView Enhanced chest imaging technology.

Carestream Health is now taking orders for the DRX-Mobile Retrofit Kit that allows healthcare providers to upgrade selected mobile x-ray systems to wireless DRX-1 technology.

GE Healthcare announced it has acquired MedPlexus and its suite of product offerings, including ambulatory EMR practice and revenue cycle management software, will be added to GE's Centricity line.

Initial chest radiography may have significance in helping predict clinical outcome, but normal initial radiographs cannot exclude adverse outcome for patients with influenza A (H1N1), according to a study in the April issue of Radiology.