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.

MRI for lower back pain may be the poster child for overused imaging that offers little useful information. However, new research is flipping that notion on its head—literally—as functional MRI (fMRI) scanning has demonstrated abnormalities in brain structure predispose individuals to develop chronic pain after a lower back injury.

Subtracted 320-detector row volumetric CT angiography (CTA), which allows bone-free visualization, is superior to nonsubtracted volumetric CTA for the detection of cerebral aneurysms and should be considered as the first-line imaging technique for evaluating suspected aneurysms, according to a study published online in Radiology.

Two-thirds of surveyed providers would consider using their advanced visualization system as their primary reading environment as a way of consolidating vendors, according to the report “Advanced Visualization 2013: How Advanced Is It?” from market research firm KLAS.