Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.

As of March 1, all access to electronic Department of Defense (DoD) records through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) computerized patient record system (CPRS) remote data view (RDV) and VistAWeb was disabled due to the potential for incorrect or incomplete display of DoD patient medical records when using VAs CPRS RDV or VistAWeb functions, according to a patient safety alert published by the VA Central Office issued March 3.

There is a real risk of inadvertent disclosure of personal health information (PHI) through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, although the risk is not as large as for personal financial information, according to an article published online in  the March issue of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.

Biomedical equipment and software company Esaote introduced a new RIS/PACS, Estensa, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 in Vienna, March 4-8.

Barco has added two new point-of-care solutions to its product line, the ProScribe and CliniScape mobile point of care devices.

Viztek has added a cloud-based, pay-per-use offering to its family of Opal PACS applications for radiology and orthopedic departments.

Health IT company Merge Healthcare has released eFilm Mobile, an extension of eFilm Workstation to provide access to worklists and studies from an iPhone or iPod Touch.

ATLANTA--Richard E. Biehl, PhD, a data warehouse architect and consultant for Data-Oriented Quality Solutions, used his expertise in designing data warehouses--specifically, the star-schema dimensional warehouse plan--in a presentation Wednesday at HIMSS10.