NextGxDx Inc., the most comprehensive online marketplace for genetic testing, yesterday announced that through its work with athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, the companies will deliver an integrated platform to help clinicians more effectively navigate and improve genetic test ordering.NextGxDx is designed to make the complex process of genetic testing simpler. Empowered by an intuitive user interface, physicians and other health care professionals can access up to date listings of all genetic tests from CLIA certified laboratories, order tests online, and receive results electronically. The company's bioinformatics team uses proprietary tools to update and curate test data.

GE Healthcare announced today that version 11 of its EMR and practice management solution – Centricity Practice Solution – has received Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) pre-validation status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).  With this pre-validation, customers using Centricity Practice Solution 11 can now eliminate some of the documentation required to qualify for PCMH recognition.In response to regulatory change, the healthcare industry is rapidly shifting to new care and payment models. The PCMH model is designed to improve primary care, with a focus on total care coordination through measurement, transparency, and accountability. Practices that have been recognized as Patient Centered Medical Homes by NCQA have often received enhanced reimbursement, increased patient satisfaction, reduced hospitalization rates, and reduced readmission rates.

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that Imaging Specialists of Charleston and Charleston Radiologists, P.A. has selected Merge Healthcare's entire Merge Outpatient Radiology Suite as well as Merge Honeycomb(TM) Archive."Because our organization is committed to providing the highest level of patient care and the latest technology available in our field, we've recently made the decision to align ourselves with a partner who can help to enable our ambitious plans for growth with leading technology," explained Michael Garovich, MD, President of Charleston Radiologists.

Net Health, the leader in software solutions for outpatient specialty care, has announced the availability of The Outpatient Wound Clinic Market Performance Report, developed using data from more than 700,000 patients and more than 1.5 million individual wounds documented in the WoundExpert® software, Net Health's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for wound management.Based on a review of wound data from 2010 through 2012, the report provides findings about wound clinic performance and clinical outcomes from the provider of the largest EMR solution in the industry.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Inland Northwest Health Services is improving patient care via their cloud-based electronic health record services delivered to physicians and medical facilities with IBM server and storage technology.(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO)The solution based on IBM System x servers, Storwize and DS8000 Storage systems, SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization technology and storage software, ensures high reliability, availability and efficiency for the EHR services INHS provides to 40 hospitals and 750 physicians in the northwest United States.

ITelagen, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare IT support announced the immediate availability of NextGenAnywhere™, a technology that delivers the NextGen® Ambulatory EHR to mobile devices. Now available for iPad and Android tablet mobile devices, NextGenAnywhere is powered by ITelagen's innovative EHRAnywhere™ platform to enable physicians the freedom and flexibility to access patient medical data and applications – where and when they are needed. NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, is a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII).As a NextGen® Certified Partner and VAR (Value Added Reseller), ITelagen is offering the NextGenAnywhere technology to provide physicians and staff with on-demand access to the application, enabling maximum productivity and mobility with their EHR.

Visage Imaging Inc. (“Visage”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. (ASX:  PME), announced today that they have released version 7.1.4 of the Visage® 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform, as well as Visage Ease(sm) version 1.4.2*. Visage 7 enables enterprise imaging with amazingly fast, thin-client, server-side processing technology, as well as simple mobile access to imaging results via Visage Ease.

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today participated in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) joint meeting of the Gastroenterology-Urology Panel and Radiological Devices Panel on computed tomography (CT) colonography. The joint panel was convened to discuss the benefits and risks of the imaging technology, also known as “virtual colonoscopy,” for asymptomatic colorectal cancer patients.