Many medical business associatesthird parties that include billing companies, credit bureaus, insurance brokers, data processing firms, pharmacy chains, accounting firms and offshore transcription vendorsare unprepared to meet new data breach regulations in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

Data management and archiving provider InSite One has partnered with SunGard Availability Services to install its InDex OnSite at the Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Ala., and the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb, Miss.

Acute heart attack patients admitted to academic hospitals average a cumulative effective radiation dose of 14.52 mSv from imaging and other procedures. Researchers cautioned physicians to be aware of the cumulative effect of all ionizing radiation tests, rather than just focusing on the dose of each exam. The study was presented at the 2009 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in Orlando, Fla., on Monday.

Californias Neighborhood Healthcare has selected eClinicalWorks unified EMR and practice management (PM) solution along with eClinicalWorks Enterprise Business Optimizers (eBO) reporting capabilities for its 115 providers across 11 locations.

Singapore General Hospital has successfully activated the Eclipsys Sunrise Patient Flow solution.

More than 85,000 physicians and healthcare professionals, who properly reported data regarding Medicare services to the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS), reaped more than $92 million in incentives in 2008 under the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative.

Health IT developer McKesson has installed its Horizon Medical Imaging PACS in the Iowa Health System in Des Moines.

Despite the economy's instability, researchers have found that most facilities lack high-performance revenue cycle strategies that balance patient satisfaction and finances, based on the findings of a report released by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).