It's time for the annual CMIO Compensation Survey. CMIOs and other health IT leaders are invited to help CMIO compile a comprehensive view of the trends in the industry and the factors that are most important when determining salary. Three participants will win a $100 Visa gift card.

Qualcomm has spun off a new subsidiary to develop its own line of wireless offerings for use with medical devices. The new entity also will establish a $100 million investment program to fund ventures in biosensor technologies, remote care systems and health IT apps.

Source: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165[12]:1069-1077Childhood abuse is associated with reductions in cerebral gray matter volume and adolescents may have gray matter changes putting them at risk for behavioral difficulties even if they do not have symptoms that meet full criteria for psychiatric disorders, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Healthcare providers are optimistic about clinical decision support (CDS) tools, according to a new report from healthcare market researcher KLAS.

There may soon be an alternative to FDG-PET in the diagnosis of Alzheimers disease (AD) as the non-invasive arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI method has been shown to provide comparable information, according to a study appearing in Neurology.

There is growing demand for more mobile applications (apps) as smartphone use becomes more prevalent among healthcare providers, according to University of California, San Diego researchers.

CHICAGOThe implementation of clinical decision support resulted in a marked, positive change in the utilization pattern for breast MRI, according to a study presented Nov. 30 at the Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

GE Healthcare demonstrated the newest version of its Centricity Radiology Mobile Access platform, which allows radiologists to remotely select and view patient images from Centricity PACS on their mobile Apple devices, at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).