Mount Carmel Health Partners in Columbus, Ohio, has chosen accountable care organization MedVentives MedVentive Population Manager to support the groups clinical integration initiative and help partner physicians and the Mount Carmel Health System improve patient care and clinical outcomes.

Researchers have leveraged quantitative CT to identify two types of structural changes in the lungs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) associated with frequent exacerbations, according to a study published online July 25 in Radiology. The findings may help identify patients for targeted research and therapy development for individual phenotypes.

Economists predict that government spending will account for 49 percent of all national health expenditures by 2020, according to a report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released July 28.

East Orange General Hospital, a 211-bed community hospital in East Orange, N.J., is now live on GE Healthcares GE Centricity Enterprise 6.6 integrated EHR, financial and administrative software package.

IEEE has enlisted the data-mining and analytics developer Parity Computing, of San Diego, to develop an author name disambiguation initiative in support of the IEEE Xplore digital library.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has expanded its agreement with health IT company McKesson for revenue cycle management.

Noncompetition covenants (noncompetes) haunt radiologists throughout their careers, and require meticulous legal advice, posed an article in the July issue of Journal of American College of Radiology. However, confusion need not reign supreme.

The University of Western Australia's Centre for Software Practice (CSP) has released Diagnostic Imaging Pathways, an iPad application that helps clinicians choose the most appropriate diagnostic imaging examinations in a wide range of clinical scenarios.