Siemens Healthcare announced yesterday that Henri"Rik" Primo, director of marketing and strategic relationships, image and knowledge management, has been re-elected as chair of the medical imaging informatics section of the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA).

A software application integrated with an EHR might display data to physicians about ambient public health conditions and prompt appropriate management, treatment and reporting processes based on a calculation that considered patient factors in a specific epidemiologic situation could be important for future clinical decision support (CDS) systems, according to a study in the January edition of the Journal of the American Medical informatics Association.

Cerner has reached an agreement to acquire IMC Health Care,of Jacksonville, Fla., which provides employer-sponsored onsite health centers.

Therapeutic and diagnostic solutions provider Tibotec Virco Virology, has acquired the customizable EMR system-Lab Tracker HIV-from the Huntsville, Ala.-based company, Ground Zero Software.

Incentives in the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act represent an opportunity to accelerate the development, standardization and utilization of quality measures derived from clinical data in EHRs and from other clinical data sources, according to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).

Paul Dempster has been appointed the new director of medical imaging and factory automation of Toshiba Americas imaging systems division.

EHRs should be designed to be clinically useful, practical and efficient, according to a recent study published in the January 2010 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Incompatible hospital communications solutions are making it difficult for nurses to effectively communicate with patients and collaborate with care team members, based on the findings of a recent survey by healthcare consulting firm Spyglass Consulting Group.