Spectrum Health, a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based nonprofit integrated health system, will deploy health IT company Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation MD software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in the cardiac cath labs at Blodgett Hospital and Butterworth Hospital.

Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System, an 11-hospital and four-clinic system serving California, Colorado, Kansas and Montana, has renewed its supply chain management agreement with health IT company Broadlane.

By encouraging more clinician hands-on use of its radiology order entry system, Massachusetts General Hospital has been able to reduce the number of low-yield imaging exams, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology.

The medical home model is at risk of becoming the latest fad in a long history of unrealistic expectations and failed health reform efforts, authors Charles M. Kilo, MD, and John H. Wasson, MD, wrote in the May issue of Health Affairs.

San Antonio-based Baptist Health System has implemented an eICU program from Philips VISICU, eGuardian.

Healthcare services and IT company McKesson has gained four new clients who have signed on for its Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) radiology billing and practice management offering.

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Ga., has chosen Imprivata to secure access to McKesson EMRs for its more than 4,000 users with Imprivata OneSign.

St.Vincent Health in central Indiana has deployed health IT company Zynx Healths ZynxOrder to standardize evidence-based order sets across the 19-facility health system.