In a move to expand its disease management and clinician services sectors, cardio-diagnostic company Atherotech has appointed Jennifer E. Mason, RN, MS, as its vice president of clinical operations.

Physicians and providers interested in coronary artery disease (CAD) screening can now become certified as heart attack prevention/early detection specialists through an Internet-based education program.

A recent amendment (IEEE 802.11n) to the family of 802.11 wireless networking standards is designed to improve network throughput over previous standards. The new standard is being widely adopted and IT personnel should discuss migration of their mobile devices to the new standard with vendors, according to a new white paper from Summit Data Communications.

GE Healthcare has acquired Living Independently Group, the provider of elderly care company QuietCare. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Government agencies, healthcare professional societies and patient advocacy groups aim to minimize radiation exposure from imaging and improve patient safety. To that end, researchers have developed the Radiation Exposure Monitoring (REM) profile, a health IT initiative intended to be integrated with patients EMR and other enterprise data collection systems, according to a lecture at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

To better study the efficacy of the Combo Bio-engineered Sirolimus Eluting Stent, OrbusNeich has announced that a clinical trial to evaluate the success of the stent is underway in patients with symptomatic, ischemic heart disease.

CHICAGONegative results from an automated coronary CT angiography (CCTA) reader may be useful for triaging emergency department (ED) patients, based on a study presented Monday at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference. Conversely, the researchers determined that positive automated results require further interpretation by an experienced reader.

Initial results of a survey conducted by the American Society of Echocardiography found that 87 percent of cardiologists and cardiovascular ultrasound technicians fear that the 2010 Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) Physician Fee Schedule could trigger staff reductions, end their practice or require them to stop accepting Medicare patients.