Quality Systems has acquired the Poseidon Group to support the growth of its NextGen Inpatient Solutions offering.

BC Technical has acquired Consus Medical Imaging, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based company that provides molecular imaging equipment service. While the company did not disclose the transaction amount, BC Technical said this acquisition will expand its customer base in the Southeast.

Emergency physicians at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania reduced abdominal CT scans approximately 10 percent after implementing an electronic accountability tool in the EMR and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, according to a study presented May 11 at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

Silver Lake Sumeru, a technology private-equity company, and Essex Woodlands, a healthcare growth-equity firm, have signed an agreement to jointly acquire Medseek, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of patient engagement and analytics tools.

Amcom Software has acquired IMCO Technologies critical test results management suite for an undisclosed sum.

Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are shopping for doctors, plunking down dollars on existing physician practices and new MDs at a fast clip since 2005, according to a new report from ECRI Institute.

Abbott has entered into an agreement to acquire AP214 from Action Pharma, a privately owned company based in Aarhus, Denmark, for $110 million.

Storing medical images in the cloud makes distribution faster for patients who want to share images with their physicians, regardless of where the physician is located, according to a preliminary report on the Radiological Society of North America's Image Share project presented April 30 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting in Vancouver.