Its been a year since CMIO put a stake in the ground, conducting the first-ever CMIO Compensation Survey. Some 225 chief medical information/informatics officers nationwide offered their insight, while establishing a baseline of compensation data upon which to build subsequent surveys.

Radiologists need to recognize teleradiology as a threat, and except in very limited circumstances, return to the standard modus operandi that includes covering night and weekend call, according to an article published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint against Boston Scientific and related Guidant entities under the False Claims Act for knowingly selling defective implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), the DoJ announced Jan. 27.

A federal judge from Texas has ordered Johnson & Johnson, and its subsidiary Cordis, to pay $482 million to radiologist Bruce Saffran, MD, after the jury found that the company infringed Saffrans patent (No. 5,363,760)Method and Apparatus for Managing Macromolecular Distribution.

Having advanced images available in an electronic record will evolve from cutting-edge technology to requirement eventually. However, getting complex images into everyday workflows will require answers to questions such as, how will these data-intense images be stored? How will they be kept secure? And perhaps most important, are these images necessary for improving daily care?

Radiologist attendance at RSNA 2010 totaled 15,801, setting a new high bar in the meetings history.

After a long and muddled fight, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota has sentenced Guidant, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Scientific, to three years probation for failing to report serious safety problems to the FDA regarding three models of its implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). The company also must pay more than $296 million in criminal fines.

As CMIO celebrated the end of 2010, we were also looking ahead to what promises to be a pivotal year for healthcare in general and healthcare IT in particular.