A newly formed District of Columbia Regional Health Information Organization (D.C. RHIO) will use Microsoft Amalga to allow the sharing of data among local hospitals and six community-based health centers.

HealthPartners Medical Group of Indiana and Michigan has purchasedImaging Dynamics Company’s (IDC) 1600 Plus X-Series DR system.

Ingenix, a health IT and consulting company, will collaborate with theWisconsin Health Information Organization (WHIO) to create a statewiderepository of health claims data in Wisconsin.

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

Swissray International has been awarded purchase orders for severalVeterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers and the Navy base at Balboa,Calif., for their flat panel DR systems.

Jefferson Davis Community Hospital in Prentiss, Miss., has selected RIS and PACS turnkey systems from NovaRad.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has appointed Richard Duszak, Jr., MD, FACR, to its CPT Editorial Panel, the organization responsible for the maintenance of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) national code set.

A wholly owned subsidiary of InSight has completed the sale of itsfinal diagnostic imaging center in the San Fernando Valley of southernCalifornia to RadNet Management, a network of 160 outpatient imagingcenters throughout California, Delaware, Maryland and New York.