Three cancer centers have deployed Siemens Healthcare’s Artistesolution, an accelerator engineered for adaptive radiationtherapy.

The Nuestra Señora de Fátima Hospital in Vigo, Spain, is using theiSoft hospital information system x-HIS as a global solution formanaging clinical and administrative patient information to support andoptimize its hospital management model.

RemakeHealth has gone live with an online resource to find a localimaging center, request appointments for radiology tests and look upmedical imaging prices.

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, a U.K. specialist heart and lung center, has deployed a Siemens Axiom Artis dFC angiography system in the magnetic navigation catheter lab at Royal Brompton Hospital in London. The hospital has also installed a Niobe Magnetic Guidance System with Navigant and an Odyssey network system from Stereotaxis. 

PeaceHealth has selected OrthoView software for six facilities within the Bellevue, Wash.-based healthcare system.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and Blue Cross andBlue Shield of Rhode Island have chosen the TriZetto Group’sreal-time patient liability and point-of-service claims adjudicationsoftware, Provider POS Direct.

Physicians are spending up to 14 percent of their total collections to obtain accurate payment for their services, but health insurers and other third-party payors may still inappropriately delay, deny or significantly reduce payments. In response, the American Medical Association (AMA) has created a report card to grade health insurers on how quickly and accurately physicians receive payment.

The Medical Center Leeuwarden hospital in Friesland, the Netherlands,has gone live with the Regional Cardiology Network Friesland, which isa health information exchange (HIE) based on the IHE cross-enterprisedocument sharing (XDS) standard from Forcare BV.