Siemens Medical Solutions will implement its MedSeries4 healthinformation system, designed to support rural and communityhealthcare providers in IT adoption, at Texas Scottish Rite Hospitalfor Children in Dallas.

Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles has selected Medseek’s ClinicalPortal system to enhance clinical decision-making by simplifying andimproving access to the hospital’s core and ancillary clinical systems,according to the Birmingham, Ala.-based Medseek.

Fry Construction, a Carrollton, Texas-based firm that specializes inbuilding medical imaging facilities, has begun construction on amedical imaging facility in Sherman, Texas.

The Freed-Hardeman University nursing program, the Morehouse School ofMedicine and the Palm Beach Atlantic University Lloyd L.Gregory School of Pharmacy have established 1:1 tablet computinginitiatives with CDW Government.

A regional health information organization (RHIO) in Grand Junction,Colo., has become operational in eight months, and is reportingimproved efficiency in patient care, according to Aloxoltl, a MountainView, Calif.-based healthcare information systems developer.

Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas has implemented NortelNetworks wireless instant messaging and presence technologies toenable the radiology department access from anywhere in the hospital’s120-acre campus.

Northern Inyo Hospital, a 25-bed critical-access hospital in Bishop,Calif., has contracted NovaRad to deploy its NovaPACS and NovaRISproducts.

Carestream Health has installed CR systems into London’s privatehealthcare provider HCA at Wellington Diagnostics and OutpatientCenter, which included the Rochester, N.Y.-based firm’s KodakDirectview CR systems for digital capture and PACS integration.