iCAD has appointed Anthony F. Ecock to its board of directors, increasing the number of directors to eight.

In osteoporotic patients, a fracture of the proximal femur is among theworst consequences of osteoporosis. It increases mortality risk, is amajor cause of disability, and substantially reduces the quality oflife. A multinational team of researchers has developed an algorithmthat enables compartment-specific quantitative CT analysis of theproximal femur, which potentially can be used to measure bone mineraldensity (BMD) and investigate the influence of osteoporosis medications.

The size of a polyp detected during a CT colonography procedure is ofprimary importance in diagnosis and treatment decisions due to thecorrelation between larger-size polyps and the risk of malignancy.Thus, a reliable measurement technique is a crucial tool for theinterpreting physician. A research team from the Netherlands hasdeveloped a protrusion method for the automated estimation of polypsize on CT colonography that may contribute to a practical evaluationstrategy for these exams.

Donal Quinn has been appointed as the new CEO of the diagnostics division of Siemens Healthcare.

Mike Leavitt, secretary for the department of Health and Human Services, believes that President George W. Bush’s 10-year plan forelectronic medical records (EMRs) will be accomplished, if notexceeded, by 2014.

Bernard J. Pitz today joined SonoSite as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO).

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.