The Freed-Hardeman University nursing program, the Morehouse School ofMedicine and the Palm Beach Atlantic University Lloyd L.Gregory School of Pharmacy have established 1:1 tablet computinginitiatives with CDW Government.

A regional health information organization (RHIO) in Grand Junction,Colo., has become operational in eight months, and is reportingimproved efficiency in patient care, according to Aloxoltl, a MountainView, Calif.-based healthcare information systems developer.

Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas has implemented NortelNetworks wireless instant messaging and presence technologies toenable the radiology department access from anywhere in the hospital’s120-acre campus.

Northern Inyo Hospital, a 25-bed critical-access hospital in Bishop,Calif., has contracted NovaRad to deploy its NovaPACS and NovaRISproducts.

Carestream Health has installed CR systems into London’s privatehealthcare provider HCA at Wellington Diagnostics and OutpatientCenter, which included the Rochester, N.Y.-based firm’s KodakDirectview CR systems for digital capture and PACS integration.

Five U.S. healthcare systems have chosen Optio Healthcare’s EHR, formsautomation and document management services during the three-monthperiod that ended on July 31, according to the Alpharetta, Ga.-basedOptio.

Healthcare management software and services developer Medical PresentValue (MPV) has signed a contract to automate payor contract managementfor Desert Radiologists, a 39-physician group based in Las Vegas, Nev.

Dietmar-Hopp Foundation in Heidelberg, Germany, has reportedly made agenerous donation to BSD Medical, which will allow the Mannheim Branchof Heidelberg University Medical School to launch a hyperthermiatherapy cancer treatment program.