Practice Fusion, the nation's largest electronic health record (EHR) platform, today announced a guarantee that its free EHR will be 2014 Meaningful Use-ready by the end of 2013. With 100,000 medical professionals currently active each month, the company will instantly become the largest population of physicians equipped for Meaningful Use Stage 2 when certification testing is completed later this year. The guarantee is backed with an offer to pay up to $5,000 in EHR costs for any new customer who switches to a different EHR if Practice Fusion's certification timing is not met.

Illinois Farmers Insurance and its subsidiaries have filed a $1.9 million federal lawsuit against Edina, Minn.-based Mobile Diagnostic Imaging, Inc., its owner, and its referring chiropractors. The diagnostic imaging provider is accused of orchestrating an elaborate kickback scheme intended to defraud Minnesota’s no-fault insurance system. 

Online search tools may be helpful in predicting United States medical school graduates’ interest, or lack thereof,  in radiology residency positions, finds a study published online Oct. 11 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The past week has not been a good one for medical research.

A sham research paper purposely loaded with easily identifiable errors was submitted to more than 300 open access journals as part of a sting operation. Despite the flaws in the paper, 157 journals accepted it, according to a report published in the October issue of Science.

Emergency medicine residents need more stringent, focused instruction in order to be familiarized with appropriateness guidelines for diagnostic imaging selection, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

A study of a system of peer review for radiology reports that included structured feedback from referring physicians was able to identify issues that may have gone unnoticed by a peer review among radiologists only, according to the results published in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Has your job search stalled? Do you not know where to send your resume? MiracleWorkers.com, a division of CareerBuilder, along with Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI) has released a list of Hot Jobs for Health Care, based on occupations with the greatest job increase between 2010 and 2013.