NovaRad is introducing NovaPro, the firm's latest RIS/PACS product, which is built for radiologist groups that read for multiple hospitals, clinics and imaging centers.

The University of California (UC) Berkeley began notifying students, alumni and others on May 8 that their personal information may have been stolen after learning in April that hackers had accessed restricted computer databases in its health services center.

Comparative effectiveness research should inform clinical decision making and enhance value for patients and the healthcare delivery system, according to an American Heart Association (AHA) policy statement published online May 11 in Circulation.

Pioneer Medical Group in Cerritos, Calif., and Healthpointe Medical Group in LaMirada, Calif., have signed agreements to purchase the NovaPACS product from NovaRad.

Increasing overhead, decreasing reimbursement, fierce competition and practice buy-outs...all are conspiring against the nuclear cardiologist.

While the time is right for practices to seize the opportunity to get federal money for health IT, many details that will affect incentive payments are still being fine-tuned.

A simple, automated feedback system made hypertension patients more aware of their potentially fatal or disabling disease and helped them significantly lower their high blood pressure, according to a report published May 5 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

In addition to individual recommendations for the medical community to reduce conflicts of interest, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has suggested that Congress create a national reporting program that requires pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies to make public all payments to physicians, researchers, healthcare institutions, professional societies, patient advocacy and disease groups and providers of continuing medical education.