Negligent insiders are the top cause of data breaches but malicious attacks are 25 percent more costly, according to the findings of the "2011 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States," published by Symantec and the Ponemon Institute.

The EZ DERM EHR iPad application (app) is now powered by the Nuance Communications Nuance Healthcare 360 | Development Platform.

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has submitted the latest ICD-10 industry readiness survey results to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. WEDIs report revealed that many of U.S. healthcare providers are not on track to meet the October 2013 compliance date.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of E-Health Standards and Services will not initiate enforcement action for an additional three months, through June 30, against any covered entity that is required to comply with the HIPAA Version 5010 transaction sets.

Nationwide and international benchmarks for quality, safety and patient outcomes must be created to generate consistency for imaging specialties and set a standard of care, according to a column from American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) Editor-in-Chief Thomas H. Berquist, MD, published in the March issue of AJR.

While striving to provide the most innovative and valuable care to patients is the overarching goal of healthcare, the costs associated with this care are astronomical. Several strategies have been implemented into practice to curb these high expenditures, yet current healthcare costs are nearly 18 percent of the gross domestic product. Donald M. Berwick, MD, and Andrew D. Hackbarth, MPhil, say cut waste, not care.

Clinical documentation service developers Nuance Communications and Voicebrook have partnered to deliver speech-enabled reporting tools for anatomic pathology laboratories.

Nemours Childrens Hospital of Orlando, Fla., is bringing in TriMedx, the Indianapolis-based supplier of healthcare technology services, to manage the hospitals medical equipment inventory and support its clinical engineering (CE) department.