The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville has successfully implemented GE Healthcares Centricity Perioperative to cover 27 operating rooms and 10 ancillary rooms at the level I trauma center and academic medical center.

Image management and reporting company Digisonics has expanded its DigiView image management and structured reporting system for cardiology research offerings at existing implementation sites.

The UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., has rolled out InterSystems NDoc home care and hospice workflow software from its application partner Thornberry.

Saint Francis Health System has selected Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation MD software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla.

Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., has deployed Medhosts Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to assist evaluation and management coding and IV infusion charges

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, has entered into an agreement with Gardner Family Health Network to deploy NextGen Ambulatory EHR and NextGen Practice Management, as well as QSI [Quality System, Inc.] Dental System.

Its time for radiologists to exit the darkroom and act like true consultants, said Bruce J. Hillman, MD, department of radiology and public health sciences at University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and author of an editorial about the uncritical use of high-tech imaging in the June 24 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Radiologists need to converse with their physician colleagues and educate them about the downsides of inappropriate use of high-tech studies, Hillman said in an interview.

Riverside Health System has integrated Zynx Healths ZynxOrder evidence-based order sets into its EHR system.