Cordless gadgets and smartphones have undoubtedly changed the way we live. Now, more physicians and facilities are welcoming wireless technology as another toolset for delivering better patient care. Theyre tapping into time savings, low costs and easy access that wireless devices can offer. And with oncoming EHR adoption requirements, wireless technologies will play a greater role in clinical care as more patients remotely access their health data.

A budding whistleblower suit made public Monday exposed allegations that Boston Scientific, Abbott Laboratories and Cordis fraudulently marketed and promoted biliary stents for vascular usean action not approved by the FDA.

The House of Representatives healthcare reform bill, if passed, could reduce the number of uninsured to 24 million by 2019, a 56 percent decrease relative to the current projected trend, said a recent analysis of the Affordable Health Care for America Act by the RAND Corporation.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., urging that Congress maintain the level of insurance coverage offered in the House version of healthcare reform when it reconciles the competing Senate and House healthcare reform bills.

Ambulatory EMR software will enable approximately 85 percent of healthcare providers to meet the Health IT Policy Committees proposed 2011 meaningful use standards, according to a report issued by KLAS, a healthcare market research firm.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has drastically altered the way healthcare organizations and their third-party vendors secure data and manage a data breach. As these rules begin to take effectand become requirementshealthcare organizations are just starting to learn and understand the implications of these new regulations.

Thirteen state attorneys general have asked Congress to delete from final healthcare reform legislation a provision contained in the Senates healthcare bill that would exempt Nebraska from having to pay for newly eligible Medicaid recipients.

Medipattern will provide B-CAD [computer-aided detection] software that uses breast ultrasound imaging at the Ocean Medical Imaging Center in Toms River, N.J.