Health imaging IT developer Aspyra has contracted with outpatient diagnostic services provider Renaissance Radiology Medical Group to deliver its AccessRAD RIS/PACS product.

Agfa HealthCare has integrated its IMPAX 6.0 PACS with workflow, quality improvement, and communications products from peerVue.

As an industry that long ago learned to survive and thrive through reimbursement cuts, even the likes of the DRA, health imaging and IT is not recession-proof, but for sure is recovery ready.

Community Hospital South in Indianapolis is now live with GE Healthcare's Centricity Enterprise 6.1 and Monitored Care, an integrated clinical, financial and administrative solution.

Weve changed our priorities, tightened our belts, stretched our budgets, postponed and scrapped projects, figured out how to be more efficient even in areas we previously couldnt imagine could be better refined and become more conscious and conscientious of what we need and what we want. We got used to the fact that things could change at any time, and often did, that old parameters changed and previous measures melted away. We did the wait and see. Its what the recession has done.

Siemens Helthcare reported that Ingalls Health System and St. Peters Hospital have successfully launched the firm's Soarian Clinicals healthcare information system in their facilities.

The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) Board of Trustees formally approved the associate degree as the minimum educational requirement for its certification examinations in radiography, nuclear medicine, and radiation therapy programs, as well as for candidates for MRI and sonography certification who apply under the primary pathway.

CT-guided tube pericardiostomy could be a more effective technique for treating pericardial effusion than the usual treatment involving surgical drainage of the fluid that has collected around the heart, according to an article in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.