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National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has elected nine leaders in healthcare fields to the organization’s board of directors.
The University of Virginia (UVA) Health System has opened a new MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) facility on the university's Charlottesville, Va., campus, which will be used for research, education and delivery of MRgFUS.
In states that have passed privacy laws restricting the ability of hospitals to disclose patient information, EMR sharing has suffered by more than 24 percent, according to an article in the July issue of Management Science, the journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Instutitue of Technology and other institutions have been experimenting with low-frequency, low-intensity ultrasound to provide a non-invasive alternative to techniques such as deep-brain stimulation and vagus nerve stimulation, used to treat a growing number of neurological disorders.
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Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to biopsy of palpable breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly for young women with probable fibroadenoma, according to a study published in the December edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The development of new light-emitting biomaterial at the University of Virginia, reported in a study in the current online edition of Nature Materials, could simplify the imaging of oxygen-deficient areas of tumors.
SNM (formerly the Society of Nuclear Medicine) has awarded approximately $245,000 in research grants through its Education and Research Foundation.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.