The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has unveiled the Common Security Framework, an IT-security framework designed for healthcare data loss prevention.

Partners HealthCare has selected Compuware's Vantage, a component of the company's Business Service Delivery solution for monitoring application service quality with its EMR system.

The board of directors at CardioNet, a developer of wireless cardiac arrhythmia monitoring devices, has appointed its chairman Randy Thurman as president and CEO, who has served as interim president and CEO since January.

Del Global Technologies has retained Bryan Shin, MD, a digital imaging physicist, as a dedicated consultant.

Iron Mountain Digital, a provider of Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) for backup and archiving, has added Virtual File Store service to its digital archiving and StaaS portfolio.

The European healthcare document management systems market earned revenues of $530.6 million in 2008, and is expected to reach $753.7 million in 2014, according to market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

Medicsight, a subsidiary of MGT Capital Investments and a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) and image analysis software, has restructured its management team, effective March 19.

A little less than a month ago Barack Obama promised to wield technologys wonders to raise healthcares quality and lower its cost in his presidential inaugural address. Earlier this week in Denver, he signed an economic stimulus package that included nearly $20 billion for the development and delivery of healthcare IT.