President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will administer nearly $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awards to support construction and health IT projects in community health centers around the U.S.

The U.K.'s National Health Services front-line spending will rise along with inflation, yet not without reforms across the public sector, including a reduction of 500 million (U.S. $812 million) from the NHS IT program, according to the 2009 Pre-Budget Report presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling yesterday.

The U.S. personalized medicine market is worth $232 billion and is projected to grow 11 percent annually, according to a recent report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Data management company Accenx, a subsidiary of Initiate Systems, reported that MemorialCare Medical Centers has chosen its Accenx Exchange as the interoperability platform to support the California systems physician outreach program.

It is critical that healthcare organizations in the public and private sectors understand how satisfaction drives future behaviors since visitors to government healthcare Websites who are most satisfied are the most likely to return, recommend and use the site as their primary channel for interaction with the organization, according to a survey by ForSee Results.

EMC has unveiled its fully automated storage tiering (FAST) vision technology, which automates the movement of data within a storage system, replacing repetitive, manual storage administrative tasks.

Pharmaceutical and medication delivery company Hospira has acquired Salt Lake City-based TheraDoc, a clinical informatics company that develops hospital surveillance systems.

The nonprofit National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has invited nominations for leaders in the health and healthcare fields to serve on the NeHC Board of Directors.