InfoLogix, a health IT provider, has acquired Healthcare InformaticsAssociates (HIA), a healthcare management and clinical/financialsystems consulting company.

3DR Laboratories, a medical imaging service company, and VisageImaging, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, havesigned an agreement to provide advanced reading and post-processingservices to healthcare organizations and hospitals.

Radlink, a medical imaging systems supplier, has appointed John Ross as executive VP of sales and business development.

Last week, at a congressional hearing, four out of five witnesses fromvarious healthcare companies raised concerns about shifting federal healthIT responsibilities from the Health and Human Services Departmentto the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

A $1.6 million Health Resources and Services Administration grant willbe used to create an EHR network to allow sixsouthern Illinois medical facilities to share patient information.

Varian Medical Systems has appointed Steven Leibel, MD, professor ofradiation oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine and theAnn and John Doerr Medical Director of the Stanford Cancer Center, tothe company's board of directors.

Victoria Bradley, RN, DNP, has joined Eclipsys, a provider of medical management software, as its chief nursing informatics officer.

Cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) are providing the means to integrate the business of cardiology with the practice of cardiology at the point of care—with great results for managers.