An alliance of healthcare providers, technology companies and diagnostic imaging organizations have formed the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition to promote health IT-enabled decision-support for diagnostic imaging, or e-ordering.

Philips Healthcare has signed an eight-year iSite PACS replacement deal with University of Utah Health Care, the Intermountain West's academic healthcare system.

Warwickshire, Solihull & Coventry Breast Screening Service in England, which installed its first Sectra MicroDose system in 2005, has now purchased another two Sectra systems to provide a fully direct digital mammography screening service.

Administration of the oral anticlotting drug rivaroxaban (Xarelto) to patients after an acute coronary syndrome, such as MI or unstable angina, reduces the incidence of stroke, further heart attack and death, according to the ATLAS ACS-TIMI 46 study reported in June 16 online in the Lancet.

The Sisters of Mercy Health System has chosen IBM to standardize its service support processes in preparation for a seven-state EHR deployment.

While the U.S. healthcare reform debate battles on, one issue emerging at the forefront is whether a reform package should include medical liability system reform--an oft-cited whipping boy for rising healthcare costs, according to a perspective published online June 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

GE has launched Stimulus Simplicity, a joint program from GE Healthcare and GE Capital that will ensure that EMRs are certified and offer an interest-free loan with deferred payments to doctors and hospitals.

A bill pending in the New Jersey legislature would impose civil penalties on anyone using health IT products not certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) on or after Jan. 1, 2011.