HealthEast Care System, a health system serving Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minn., has implemented Ingenix Web.Strat, a medical encoding system from healthcare technology company Ingenix, to assist the efficiency and accuracy of its medical coding operations across all 20 of its hospitals, clinics and outpatient centers.

Departmental income and faculty management were identified as critical to more departments success than resident training and clinical service interaction, a study surveying 69 radiology chairs in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) found.

Its rare to find a group of physicians, administrators and the government in agreement. However, in the case of electronic health records and oncology practices, all players seem to be on the same page.

Combined inpatient and outpatient imaging services are not necessarily patient-friendly. The mixed environment can be overcrowded and fraught with delays, which may ultimately impact referrals and the bottom line.

PHILADELPHIAMany practices are trying to figure out ways to save money, but they should not discard marketing their brand in these tough economic times, according to Patty Reames, RT, practice manager at Ohio State University Heart Centers in Bellefontaine and Marysville, Ohio.

Healthcare IT company TeraMedica has entered into an image storage agreement with Boise, Idaho-based St. Lukes Health System, beginning with the installation of Evercore enterprise vendor neutral architecture.

Healthcare IT company Digisonics has released its multi-site server for storage and communication management, DigiServ.

CDW Healthcare is expanding an agreement with VHA to deliver IT products and services to the VHA-supported Mid-America Service Solutions Consolidated Service Center (MSS CSC).