From the Top is a Q&A with key executives in the medical technology sectors. This interview is with iGuard's Founder and CEO, Hugo Stephenson. Read more...

Slowly, physicians are adopting either full or partial use of EMRs in their practices -- the CDC reported about one in four doctors using EMRs in 2005 -- and with EMRs come wireless networks. The equation is simple, says John Lubrano of the Austin, Texas-based medical technology consulting firm Protis IT Solutions . "If you need mobility, then you need wireless." Read more...

"What you see is what you get!" For lots of Americans in the early 1970s, it would have been unusual to go through a day without hearing that Flip Wilson catchphrase. It was so good -- and so useful in so many ways -- that it was later used by the PC industry to describe word processors that had a screen display closely matching what would appear on a printed page. But a PACS isn't a PC, so it's unlikely that a pithy, but equally useful, catchphrase used by one consultant when discussing PACS purchasing decisions will become as widespread. Read more...