Chicago-based Riverside HealthCare will offer eClinicalWorks' EHR suite to its employed physicians.

MR imaging delivered a 4.4 percent incremental cancer detection rate among women with a history of radiation therapy to the chest, suggesting that combined breast MR and mammography screening may be warranted in this population, according to a study published online Feb. 15 and in the April issue of Radiology.

A total of 225 breaches of protected health information (PHI) affecting more than 6 million individuals have been recorded since the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Acts Breach Notification Rule was issued in August 2009, according to a report from Redspin, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based security auditing and testing firm.

Forcare successfully demonstrated a series of new profiles to accelerate the implementation of health information exchanges at the North American Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) connectathon, held last month in Chicago.

With the HIMS11 countdown dwindling to single digits, CMIO has kicked off our preshow coverage with a look at the top offerings for EMR/EHR, clinical decision support (CDS) and health information exchange (HIE) that will be featured throughout HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., next week. All three areas of health IT have taken the national spotlight in the past year, so its no surprise theyre front and center in Orlando, Fla., as well.

The Valley Hospital, a 451-bed acute care facility and member of Valley Health System in Ridgewood, N.J., has begun an enterprise-wide implementation of medical content provider Webmedxs QualityAnalytics clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and quality reporting tool.

Louise Schottstaedt, MD, and Jeff Sippel, MD, MPH, have been named co-chief medical information officers for Centura Health, Colorados largest healthcare network.

Researchers have found that individuals carrying a particular gene variant displayed structural brain differences on MRI consistent with Alzheimer's disease as they reached older ages, connecting dispersed findings and showing promise for early risk evaluation of Alzheimers, according to a study published in the February issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.