Unity Health Systems in Rochester, N.Y., has purchased Digisonics' OB-Windows Net Clinical Reporting & Database System for its perinatal practice.

Huntington Memorial Hospital of Pasadena, Calif., has acquired Toshiba America Medical Systems' Aquilion One volume CT system.

Good Samaritan Hospital of Kearney, Neb., a member of Catholic Health Initiatives, has completed a fast-track implementation of McKesson's Horizon Medical Imaging PACS.

UMass Memorial Health Care and Bethesda Healthcare System have signed multi-year contracts for Soarian, Siemens Healthcare's Web-based Healthcare Information System.

Non-for-profit health system Spectrum Health and Medicity have deployed a platform in Michigan that enables secure health information exchange (HIE) between hospitals and physicians for clinical decision-making, care coordination and patient safety.

Members of the American College of Radiology (ACR) urged the U.S. House of Representatives Rural Caucus against using radiology benefits managers (RBMs) in the Medicare system and against a proposed imaging equipment utilization rate change from 50 to 95 percent at a Capitol Hill briefing held June 24.

Physicians failed to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients--or to document that they had informed them--in one out of every 14 cases of abnormal results, according to new research published June 22 in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers found that having an EMR does not reduce failure-to-inform rates--and even increases them--if the practice does not have good processes in place for managing test results.

Fifty-three people have been indicted for schemes to submit more than $50 million in false Medicare claims in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Detroit, according to an announcement made Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and FBI Director Robert Mueller.