Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has selected Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as its electronic order set application.

The U.S. Navy has selected ScriptPros Telepharmacy application to ensure that patients receive quality care from remote interactions.

The push to develop EMRs across healthcare enterprises really lies at the heart of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), and it is certain that all medical documents—including images and imaging reports—will eventually become part of the electronic health record. But those images are not just limited to diagnostic radiology. They include everything from endoscopy and cardiology images to dermatology and dentistry. And they also include advanced visualization (AV) images.

The creation of an integrated enterprise is becoming increasingly important, not only to successfully manage patient care, but to protect the bottom line. Interoperability strategies will have to adhere to accepted medical and communications standards in order to connect systems—including radiology—and create a seamlessly integrated enterprise.

GE Healthcare IT has reported that its maternal-child departmental application, Centricity Perinatal, continues to expand its customer base, adding 12 new customer implementations since January.

Esaote has entered into an agreement with Villa Maria Group--an Italian holding company operating in health sector through a network of multi-specialized hospitals and outpatients clinics with day surgeries--for the computerization of the cardiology departments within the group.

Multi-specialty clinic Danville Polyclinic in Danville, Ill., has chosen management software company Sage North Americas Sage Intergy EHR for its electronic documentation needs across 40 providers.

BOSTONIn essence, our practice commonly involves the utilization of direct patient skills for which many, if not most of us, have had the least formal training, said keynote speaker Stephen D. Brown, MD, of Childrens Hospital Boston and the department of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, during a session on ethical issues in prenatal imaging this week at the Society of Pediatric Radiology (SPR) conference on Thursday.