GE Healthcare has unveiled the Mars virtual sleep lab, to provide a view of quantitative cardiac and sleep apnea analysis from any GE-monitored inpatient bed.

Completely integrated, standardized, interoperable healthcare technology systems will never happen, even if every healthcare entity were to adopt the same IT systems from the same vendor. Why bother to try? Because increasingly, not interoperating is not an option.

Health Care Service Corporation has announced that its CareProfile electronic health record can help physicians and healthcare facilities identify health risks for 9 million patients across the country.

ATLANTAA wireless monitoring system that automatically sends information about an abnormal heart rhythm from a device in the patients chest to the cardiologists office significantly cuts the time between when a problem arises and a treatment decision is made, according to the CONNECT trial presented today during the late-breaking clinical trials sessions at the American College of Cardiologys (ACC) 59th annual conference. Slides

Boston Scientific Corporation announced today that it has stopped shipment and is retrieving field inventory of all its implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds).

The Senate this week voted to expand the number of eligible physicians who might receive incentive payments for the meaningful use of health IT under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. This is welcome news for the wide range of clinicians who have asked for such an expansion, but its not the end of the discussion by any means.

A high percentage of CT and MRI examinations are not meeting appropriateness criteria and subsequently yielding negative results, which suggests a need for tools to help primary care physicians hone their imaging decision requests, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The Virginia State Legislature this week approved a bill mandating health insurers, healthcare subscription plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to fully cover the cost of healthcare services provided through telemedicine services.