Connecticut officials are investigating how a hard drive containing seven years of personal and medical information on 446,000 Health Net customers in Connecticutand, according to published sources, another one million customers in Arizona, New Jersey and New Yorkwent missing six months ago and was only reported lost by the insurance company this past Wednesday.

A handheld decision-support system may improve diagnostic decision making for patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) in the emergency department, suggests a study published in the Nov. 17 online edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Data storage and archiving firm EMC has released the latest iteration of Avamar, which includes enterprise backup capabilities for desktop and laptop computers.

Insight Health Solutions is presenting its automated peer review management system, RadiologyInsight, at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago this month.

Communications and IT company Harris announced this week it has acquired health IT company Patriot Technologies.

David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health IT, issued a letter Thursday addressing the need to eliminate inappropriate barriers to the implementation of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act mandates.

Health IT is the fastest growing segment of the $1 trillion global healthcare marketplace, and its 11 percent combined annual growth rate is likely to continue through 2013, according to a report from life sciences consulting firm Scientia Advisors.

Health IT developer MEDecision has selected Scott A. Storrer as its president and CEO to replace founder David St. Clair.