HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG) has awarded a contract to GE Healthcare to make its advanced imaging technologies available to the thousands of patients HPG serves.

InSiteOne Inc. will be implementing its on- and off-site secure DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) storage at Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., which serves the entire state and surrounding areas.

Intelerad Medical Systems has implemented its IntelePACS web-based PACS at OVO Clinic, a fertility clinic in Montreal, Canada.

Intuitive Imaging Informatics LLC., of Los Angeles, Calif., is upgrading the PACS in use at Regional Radiology of Staten Island, N.Y.

GE Healthcare has announced agreement with Yale University to install its Centricity Perioperative Manager and Anesthesia products at facilities associated with Connecticut-based Yale New Have Hospital (YNHH).

Dallas-based Christus Health has awarded Healthlink Inc., a Houston-based healthcare information systems consulting firm, a $4 million agreement to standardize its IT-enabled clinical, business, and financial processes.

Providence Medical Center in Kansas City has treated its first patients using Varian Medical Systems' Trilogy system.

We're always trying to gauge the adoption of IT in healthcare, and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently put forth some numbers that prove what we already knew - adoption is still limited, although growing.