Hendricks Regional Health, a nonprofit health system in Danville, Ind., has selected Corepoint Health's Corepoint Integration Engine to replace an existing interface engine.

Northern California Medical Associates has selected SRSsoft's SRS EMR for its 50 providers.

Philips Healthcare has signed a five-year renewal/expansion deal for its iSite PACS with Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

The increased incidence of breast cancer is closely related to the introduction of screening--only a small percentage of which was trumped by a drop in breast cancer occurences in previously screened women, according to a study published July 9 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). In addition, the study found that one in three breast cancers detected in a population offered organized screening is overdiagnosed.

A program aimed at screening for breast cancer when it is most treatable boosted mammography rates by more than 17 percentage points, according to research by Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The program used an EHR to identify women who would be due for a mammogram and contacted them via postcards, automated voice messages and personal phone calls.

In states that have passed privacy laws restricting the ability of hospitals to disclose patient information, EMR sharing has suffered by more than 24 percent, according to an article in the July issue of Management Science, the journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

The U.S. Air Force has selected and deployed Agfa HealthCare's Impax PACS to replace the existing PACS at Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base.

Using federated technology from Axolotl, the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHI), has completed a pilot to become a statewide health information exchange (HIE), connecting hospitals, labs, physicians, pharmacies and clinics that serve approximately 645,000 patient lives.