The internet has had profound effects on healthcare by putting access equally in the hands of patients and physicians, thereby redefining their roles, according to an opinion article published in the March 25 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sprint showcased a variety of technologies including 4G/WiMax applications, as well as partnerships in the converged networks, home healthcare, telemedicine, and business continuity and disaster recovery markets during the recent HIMSS10 trade show in Atlanta earlier this month.

The passage of the healthcare reform bill will have a devastating impact on physician-owned hospitals and virtually destroy the more than 60 hospitals that are currently under development, according to Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America.

Two womens clinics in Louisville, Ky., have installed NovaRads NovaPACS.

Almost 80 percent of cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, while heart and circulatory diseases cause 30 percent of deaths in these countries. Implementing risk-reduction initiatives that monitor diet, exercise and tobacco use are necessary to stop what has now become a fatal epidemic, according to a report published from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on March 22.

While Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., takes a seriocomic tone in his collection of essays, the ACC.10 clinical trials and education presentations that garnered the most attention from our readers were mainly focused on the potential for new or better therapies, which are not currently or widely available. These trialers are giving new methods an intellectual shake of sorts through well-designed evaluations.

Cost-profiling tools produce misleading results and often misclassify physician performance, according to a RAND Corporation report published March 18 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

McKesson's Horizon Cardiology cardiovascular information system (CVIS) now offers hosted storage solutions for data protection, archive and disaster recovery, in addition to virtualized server solutions. The company announced these new options for Horizon version 12.1, a single-database CVIS, during ACC.10 in Atlanta.