Identity thieves, who use sophisticated techniques, are honing in on patient information from doctors’ offices, clinics and hospitals.

The Canadian Federal Court has dismissed a lawsuit in which Johnson Johnson’s Cordis accused Boston Scientific’s NIR stent of infringing two of Cordis’ Palmaz stent patents.

For a state health information exchange (HIE) to be successful, lobbying in the legislature plays an integral role, reported Gina Perez, executive director of the Delaware Health Information Network and Devore Culver, executive director of Maine's HealthInfoNet, at a Dallas conference sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.

CR and PACS from Carestream Health play a role in helping The Field Museum of Chicago discover, analyze and manage secrets hidden within its collections.

Dutch researchers have completed the first human procedure using the Volcano Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging catheter.

INFINITT North America, a provider of RIS, PACS and 3D imaging, has released its Mammo PACS, a web-based, multi-modality PACS solution designed to display, read, archive and distribute breast imaging studies.

Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed its Aquilion One dynamic volume CT system at Nevada Imaging Centers in Las Vegas.

The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded the National Heritage Insurance Corporation (NHIC) a contract for the combined administration of Part A and Part B Medicare claims payment in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health will now be the first in the United States to treat cancer patients with RapidArc radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems.

Brussels Menopause Center, a private clinic for women’s health, has chosen Sectra MicroDose Mammography to offer women mammography examinations at a low radiation dose.

St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio, has selected the Allscripts integrated EHR and practice management solution to automate and connect clinical and administrative processes for its 100 physicians.

Vital Images, a provider of enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis solutions, has reported losses for the first quarter of 2008, which ended March 31.

athenahealth, a medical billing, practice management and EMR service provider, posted gains in revenue and profit for its fiscal 2008 first quarter, which ended March 31.

Immunomedics, a biopharmaceutical company, has reported widening losses for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008, which ended March 31.

While FDA enforcement may not be a concern for medical device companies when appealing a warning letter, the agency currently is reviewing its procedures for the appeal and dispute process.

Toshiba Medical Systems plans to build CT system development and service locations at the location its parent company’s headquarters in Otawara, Japan, by the end of the year.

Health Discovery, a support vector machine (SVM)-based molecular diagnostics developer, and DCL Medical Laboratories, a clinical reference laboratory focused on women’s health, have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop an SVM-based computer-assisted diagnostic (CAD) test for the analysis of cervical cells.

Ultrasonix Medical, a developer and manufacturer of high quality diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems, has restructured its North American operations to focus on its target markets.

The addition of time-resolved data to conventionally acquired high-spatial-resolution contrast-enhanced MR angiography (MRA) images results in increased occlusion detection specificity and reader confidence without increasing the time needed for study interpretation, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

AstraZeneca-sponsored SATURN clinical trial will use the Volcano Revolution 45 MHz intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging catheter from Volcano, as part of its imaging protocol.