The presentation will discuss the emerging role of chief nursing information officer (CNIO), both as a liaison between IT and nursing, especially optimizing the EMR for nursing, at a 14 hospital metropolitan healthcare system.

McKesson has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Drug Trading, an independent banner business of Katz Group Canada and Medicine Shoppe Canada, the franchise business of the Katz Group. The purchase price is approximately CAD$920 million (USD$1.21 billion), which McKesson expects to fund from its available cash.

Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE), according to Michael J. Gray of Gray Consulting who presented during a webinar on Jan. 26 hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and GNAX Health.

The benefits to productivity and efficiency provided by PACS are widely publicized, but a PACS implementation isnt without its challenges. In the February issue of Academic Radiology, radiologists and PACS managers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland offered their experiences implementing PACS to illustrate potential gains and problem areas.

Informatics innovations can boost productivity or market share; however, justifying the development and implementation of such systems can be challenging. An article in the February issue of Academic Radiology offered a wish list and a series of strategies for investing in specific PACS innovations.

GE Healthcare IT has appointed Michael Jackman, MBA, to the role of vice president and general manager of its specialty solutions business.

Providers are harnessing natural language processing (NLP) to address unstructured data challenges and reinvent patient care and clinician workflow.

Eliot L. Siegel, MD, professor and vice chair of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, will deliver the 2012 Dwyer Lecture at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting on June 8 in Orlando, Fla.