Quovadx, a healthcare IT company, has acquired Healthvision, a healthinformation exchange provider that connects hospitals, labs,physicians and patients.

Radlink, a medical imaging supplier, has named Allan Christensen vice president of technical services.

CodeRyte, a provider of computer-assisted coding and clinical dataextraction technologies, has added George Sears to its management teamas vice president of business development.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awardedGeorgia’s Department of Community Health a $3.93 milliontransformation grant to help build a statewide health informationtransparency website.

Chicago-based Initiate Systems has introduced Initiate Master DataService version 8.0, a comprehensive master data management (MDM)platform that delivers single and complete versions of critical dataassets in real-time to users.

Aionex will use SkyeTek’s M1 HF SkyeModule to RFID-enable emergencyrooms, operating rooms and intensive care units readers in its PatientResponse Platform, software that communicates and documents patientinformation.

Results from a pair of virtual colonoscopy studies published this weekdemonstrate that the technique works just as well at spottingpotentially cancerous growths as optical colonoscopy.

Speech recognition services provider M*Modal unveiled its AnyModal CDSLive product at the American Health Information Management Association conference in Philadelphia next week.