Cato Research has signed a five-year technology transfer agreement to use Merge Healthcares etrials EDC [electronic data capture] technology to build and deploy custom clinical trial studies.

Health IT solutions provider Merge Healthcare has been selected by Durham, N.C.-based Cato Research Ltd. to provide the proprietary etrials EDC solution through its technology transfer program.

Advanced visualization and decision support technologies provider TeraRecon has made available its internet-accessible software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model for cloud computing, iNtuition Cloud.

GE Healthcare showcased its Innova EPVision software application that combines 2D and 3D x-ray images and cardiac models from multiple imaging modalities such as CT, x-ray and MRI to help alleviate motion during cardiac procedures by use of image stabilization features, at the recent Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) meeting.

Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners in Providence, R.I., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Virtual Radiologic, a developer of radiologist workflow technologies, for $17.25 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $294 million.

Toshiba America Medical Systems has promoted Marketing Services Director Catherine Wolfe to senior director of corporate and strategic communications.

The U.S. healthcare delivery will undergo dramatic changes over the next 10 years through the adoption of telehealth, according to a survey of health and IT professionals sponsored by Intel, and released during the annual meeting of the American Telemedicine Association in San Antonio. 

In the wake of two data breaches of veterans health information, Rep. Steven Buyer, R-Ind., ranking Republican on the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs, sent a stinging letter to Erik K.Shinseki, Secretary of the VA, criticizing the agencys continuing material weakness in veterans personal information from data breaches.