Healthcare consulting services provider Coding Strategies (CSI) has partnered with nonprofit Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) to create a new product designed to give radiology administrators tools to prepare the practice for the implementation of ICD-10.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems NextGen Ambulatory EHR version 5.6, a certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR, has been additionally certified for dermatology and behavioral health in the Certification Commission for Health ITs (CCHIT) certification program.

Panasonic Solutions and Mobile Armor, a data protection and encryption technology company, have entered into a license and reseller partnership to integrate Mobile Armor's data encryption software into select Panasonic Toughbook notebooks and mobile clinical assistants.

iMDsoft, a provider of clinical information systems for preoperative, critical and general care, and Medical Web Technologies (MWT), a provider of web-based medical information software, have partnered to jointly offer their technologies.

Cory Hall has joined healthcare web-service provider Reach Call as executive vice president (VP) of medical informatics.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced 35 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) investments to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs and improve education and healthcare across the U.S.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the six 2010 HIMSS Davies Awards winners.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Health Howard K. Koh, MD, said the agency will award more than $14.2 million to develop, implement and test strategies to increase adoption and dissemination of interventions based on patient-centered outcomes research among racial and ethnic minority populations.