Providence Health & Services Washington Region, in Renton, Wash., has selected Compuwares EHR Service Delivery to improve the performance and availability of its clinical applications.

Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, a Mishawaka, Ind.-based health network, has deployed clinical decision support company Zynx Healths ZynxOrder to consolidate and standardize evidence-based order sets for use across its 13 hospitals and healthcare centers.

Surgical teams from three European hospitals, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, the Yeditepe University Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, and the University Hospital of Bordeaux in France, have completed the first phase of training to deploy SynCardia Systems CardioWest total artificial heart device.

Health IT provider Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) has been selected by Mesa, Ariz.-based Arizona Regional Medical Center to provide the facility with hospital information system applications.

Philips has entered into a three-year agreement with Nashville, Tenn.-based home health, companion care and therapy services provider SunCrest Healthcare.

St. Josephs Hospital, a 325-bed acute care hospital in Parkersburg, W.Va., has selected eWebHealths eWebHIM suite of medical record workflow technology as its electronic legal health record.

Recent requirements from the Joint Commission and the American College of Radiology (ACR) add to the growing number of quality demands being placed upon radiology departments. In an increasingly complex regulatory and financial environment, comprehensive quality management processes are essential. The digital dashboard holds the answers to today's problems if you only you dare to fully utilize them.

While perfecting the ergonomics of the radiology reading room has long been a topic of research and debateand a continuing work in progressversatility and flexibility are the key components to ensuring comfort and thus better productivity for radiologists with different wants and needs.