There is ongoing debate over the money-saving potential of EHRs, with some research showing their ability to reduce provider costs and some showing their ability to bust provider budgets. The lack of consistency suggests past research has inappropriately framed the debate, according to an August working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

More than half of U.S. hospitals, 54 percent, plan to purchase products designed to help integrate medical devices with EMRs over the next two years.

An unauthorized user gained access to and encrypted the server of a small Midwestern surgical practice and essentially held the information hostage in exchange for the password needed to regain access to the server.

Amid its second quarterly results announcement, BG Medicine said that it is withdrawing the CardioScore diagnostic test from the FDA 510(k) submission process.

Researchers at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., have demonstrated the feasibility of a wearable sensor that they designed to passively recognize people. If successful, the prototype they hope to build from their study will curtail mistaken-identity errors in, and malicious hacking of, mobile and wearable medical devices.

Siemens Healthcare has signed an agreement to incorporate Radimetrics' radiation dose management and reporting system into syngo Workflow RIS.

Positron has consolidated the operations of its radiopharmaceutical and radioisotope businesses, some of which were located at its Crown Point, Ind., facility to its Lubbock, Texas site.

Recent studies highlight some areas, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, in which advanced visualization can impact costs, diagnosis and treatment.