Health Insights, a healthcare systems developer, has signed a partnership agreement with InterSystems to deploy its MedicaPlus hospital and clinical information system on InterSystems Cach object database.

Many pharmacy clinical decision-support (CDS) systems don't always identify well-known, clinically relevant drug-drug interactions (DDIs), according to a study in the January edition of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The FDA has approved Medic Vision's SafeCT, which processes and enhances CT images to enable radiation dose reduction.

Two AHMC hospitals in California have chosen Novarad's NovaPACS, with three of AHMC's six medical centers now using the system.

The U.S. government has awarded Vital Images a Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project grant of $1.45 million for research and development.

Managing CT radiation dose remains a critical issue for providers across the country. As studies attempt to estimate and the media too-often exaggerates the risks of radiation-induced cancers, referring physicians and patients are looking to the radiology community for answers.

January is the season of promise and fresh starts. Were ready to improve performance, take the next steps toward achieving our goals or, at the very minimum, break bad habits.

Old habits whether good or baddie hard. Studies are mounting, showing that as radiologists diagnose patients injuries, many are incurring their own, with poor workstation design, harmful repetitive motions and prolonged postures as key culprits.