Health IT vendor Allscripts has entered into a reseller and development partnership with speech recognition developer M*Modal, allowing Allscripts to incorporate M*Modals Speech Understanding technology into its EHRs.

The White House announced the departure of Aneesh Chopra, assistant to the President and the federal governments first chief technology officer (CTO).

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced the second part of its Investing in Innovation Initiative: a challenge that aims to stimulate the use of simple, IT-enabled processes and tools that make scheduling hospital discharge follow-up appointments easier for patients, caregivers and providers.

Patients with head and neck cancers who have been treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) enjoy a better quality of life than those treated with 3D conformal radiation therapy, according to a study presented Jan. 27 at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Phoenix.

Shine Medical Technologies, a developer of medical isotopes and cancer treatment elements, intends to build a new manufacturing plant in Janesville, Wis. Plant completion is planned for 2015, with more than 100 permanent employees and potential for further employment growth.

Baseline perfusion CT imaging parameters, specifically blood flow and mean transit time, discriminated patients with rectal cancer who had a favorable response to chemoradiation therapy (CRT) from those who did not, according to a study published in the February issue of Academic Radiology.

Fujifilm Medical Systems has introduced FCR Prima T, which is designed for low-volume private practices.

The diagnostic imaging market will be marked by an expansion of hybrid modality technology, the growth of imaging in emerging markets and negative growth due to reimbursement cuts in the U.S., according to a report by GBI Research, a business information company, distributed by Industry Review.