The leaders of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) have requested that Reps. Pete Stark, D-Calif., and Dave Camp, R-Mich., implement some modifications to their newly introduced health IT legislation.

AccuSoft, a provider of imaging development toolkits, has releasedversion 16 of its ImageGear imaging software development toolkits.

Bio-Imaging Technologies has appointed Peter S. Benton as president ofits Phoenix Data Systems division, a provider of electronic datacapture services.

The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold aMedicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee meeting on Nov. 19 to evaluate the use of CT colonography(CTC) as a cancer screening test for average risk individuals.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published three new health IT-related funding opportunity announcements and a special emphasis notice, intended for improvements in ambulatory settings and in transitions of care.

By combining functional MRI (fMRI) with behavioral economicresearch, neuroscientists and economists at New York University have provided new insight into the tendency to overbid at auctions.

The National Biodefense Science Board is in favor of supporting the integration of an EMR system for use in federal disaster response efforts with future patient-tracking and medical resource availability systems, as well as its interoperability with other EMR systems.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has found that momentum is building behind incentives for physicians to adopt EHRs in their medical practices.