Boston Scientific reported a second quarter net loss of $3.4 billion, with declines in sales in its interventional cardiology and cardiac rhythm management businesses.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is in the process of notifying approximately 3,900 patients of a potential breach of protected health information as a result of a physician's stolen personal laptop computer.

Medtronic has enrolled its first patient in a global, multicenter, randomized clinical trial comparing the Medtronic CoreValve system with surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at intermediate risk to undergo open-heart surgery.

The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA) has teamed with Oak Grove Technologies to produce a mobile application version of the HITECH Act Breach Notification Risk Assessment Tool, originally developed by the NCHICA Privacy and Security Officials Workgroup.

GE Healthcare has been recalling a number of combination ventilator-anesthesia machines since April over concerns the devices may overdose patients on inhaled anesthetics, according to a July 11 notice from the FDA.

The latest studies related to advanced visualization show how new technology is bringing home the ideal trifecta of reduced costs, improved efficiency and better quality of care and outcomes.

The Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA) is a go. Three weeks after the Senate and House produced a reconciled version of the bill, President Barack Obama signed it into law July 9 as part of the Food and Drug Safety and Innovation Act.

Philips Healthcare and Therapeutic Monitoring Systems are collaborating to integrate clinical decision support (CDS) software, being developed by Ottawa-based Therapeutic Monitoring, into Philips' cardiopulmonary monitors.