Viztek has added a cloud-based, pay-per-use offering to its family of Opal PACS applications for radiology and orthopedic departments.

Health IT company Merge Healthcare has released eFilm Mobile, an extension of eFilm Workstation to provide access to worklists and studies from an iPhone or iPod Touch.

ATLANTA--Richard E. Biehl, PhD, a data warehouse architect and consultant for Data-Oriented Quality Solutions, used his expertise in designing data warehouses--specifically, the star-schema dimensional warehouse plan--in a presentation Wednesday at HIMSS10.

ATLANTAIn the implementation process of an EMR, time needs to be allotted in the rollout process to educate the staff about the new system, according to Stanley Wisniewski, MD, principal at Cal Arundel Family Medicine in Huntington, Md., during an educational session Wednesday at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA -- You have been leaders and we want you to continue to be leaders and we will follow your lead, said David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT, in his March 3 keynote at HIMSS10. Speaking to a capacity crowd, Blumenthal outlined the ONCs accomplishments of the past 10 months and the work still ahead.

ATLANTA--Health IT support [within a hospital] may not have the skill set to manage images, and radiology support does not have skill set to manage integration of all hospital information, so we need both groups to work together. I think that both groups together will make a much stronger system, said Janice Honeyman-Buck, PhD, independent imaging informatics consultant and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Imaging, during her session Wednesday at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA--Will, ideas and execution are needed to improve the translation of health IT to patient care, according to Don Goldmann, MD, senior vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement during an educational session this morning at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA--Healthcare reform isnt going to happen in the halls of Congress, but through improved data-driven quality throughout the U.S. healthcare system, said Susan DeVore, president and CEO of Premier, during an educational session Tuesday at HIMSS10.