TriZetto Group plans to release the CareAdvance Provider automated authorization portal for healthcare practitioners, part of TriZettos CareAdvance Enterprise.

InSightech will release its new ExAblate One and ExAblate OR products at the upcoming meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe.

Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, a nonprofit hospital in the Denver metropolitan area, and Kalispell Regional Medical Center and the Surgery Center of Northwest Healthcare, in Kalispell, Mont., have chosen Merge Healthcares Merge Anesthesia Information Management System perioperative software.

Seventy percent of hospitals reported experiencing Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) activity during the second quarter of 2010 and 85 percent of all denied dollars were complex medical record denials that totaled more than $15.5 million, according to a RACTrac survey published by the American Hospital Association Sept. 9.

Biosound Esoate has introduced a new arm-held point-of-care ultrasound system, MyLabOne.

Carestream Health has released a new tabletop computed radiography (CR) system, the Carestream Directview Vita CR System.

Three times more radiologists utilize computer-aided detection (CAD) than double reading for reviewing mammograms, despite radiologists perceptions that double reading increases cancer detection rates and reassures reviewers better than CAD, a study in the October issue of Academic Radiology reported.

As many as 30 percent of diagnostic imaging procedures are inappropriate or contribute no useful information, a joint report by the Canadian Association of Radiologists and the Health Council of Canada concluded.