A District Court judge in Florida  has denied the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) request for additional time to file a motion to dismiss an amended complaint in the case of State of Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a case that questions the constitutionality of the health reform law.

The University of Louisville in Kentucky has notified the public that a database containing personal health information was available online from October 2008 until last month.

AvMed Health Plans will notify additional current and former members whose personal information may have been affected by a December 2009 theft of two laptop computers from the companys offices in Gainesville, Fla.

A consortium of pharmacy groups sent letters to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on June 1 requesting clarification on the interim final rule (IFR) on electronic prescriptions for controlled substances.

MINNEAPOLISImaging informatics luminary Paul Chang, MD, PhD, medical director of enterprise imaging at University of Chicago Hospitals, may have missed his real calling; he and his colleagues presented a SIIM conference firsta play starring Chang as the cranky radiology chair. The plot replicated standard operating procedures and challenges in many departments.

TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and decision support, is demonstrating several aspects of its Aquarius iNtuition enterprise advanced visualization technology to imaging and informatics professionals attending the annual meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Minneapolis this week.

The confidence to use CT colonography (CTC) as a screening tool has gained a great deal of momentum over the passed few months, bolstered by mounting clinical evidence and, most recently, congressional action.

Communications provider Motorola has introduced two new data capturing technologies , the DS6878 cordless imager series and the DS6707-HC healthcare-specific handheld imager.