Parker Adventist Hospital in Parker, Colo., has hired Imaging On Call (IOC) for teleradiology services.

The costs, training and impact of HIPAA's new electronic claim standard (5010) have been underestimated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and must be readdressed prior to the ICD-10-CM code set conversion, according to a letter from the American Medical Association (AMA), signed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), among others.

Progress on Connecting for Health, a 12 billion ($19.3 billion U.S.) program designed to give doctors instant access to patients' records across the country, has stalled, raising questions about whether the civil IT project in England will ever be finished.

New Mexico Software, a services provider of business and medical products, has obtained a 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its XR-EXpress PACS.

Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., has deployed GE Healthcares Carescape Enterprise Access, supporting its wireless vision to improve patient care and patient safety through expanded patient monitoring.

St. Elizabeth Medical Center has selected McKessons Revenue Management Solutions for outreach laboratories, which include billing, accounts receivable management, reporting and account management services.

Loma Linda University Medical Center in California has installed the Aurora 1.5Tesla dedicated breast MRI system from Aurora Imaging Technology.

eRAD has reported that it took orders from nine new customers during the third quarter of 2008.