Medical Communication Systems (MCS), through its iPatientCare EHR/practice management system, recently participated in pilot tests for the Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) EHR certification program in clinical research.

Healthcare providers scrutinized ultrasound vendors and their services in a new KLAS report, Ultrasound 2011: Innovation on the Move."

Intelerad Medical Systems has launched InteleConnect Referring Physician Portal.

The search is still under way to find the ideal U.S. healthcare payment model and while more and more fingers are pointing to accountable care organizations (ACOs) as the possible savior of healthcare reform, it remains unknown whether ACOs will be all that they are promised to be.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is seeking comments on approaches that will enable providers and other healthcare entities to obtain and manage digital certificates that are cross-certified with the Federal Bridge, according to Arien Malec, coordinator of the ONCs Standards & Interoperability Framework.

On April 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Partnership for Patients initiative, signaling a "shared investment in ending preventable harm to patients and improving transitions in care, building optimism that the era of incremental change has passed," wrote C. Joseph McCannon, AB, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, in a June 1 commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

MIM Softwares VueMe App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available on the App Store.

Medical Compression Systems has received FDA clearance to market its ActiveCare+Dx device developed on the basis of its flagship product, ActiveCare+S.F.T.