The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has set application deadlines for ONCs string of recently announced grant programs intended to strengthen health IT for colleges and community hospitals.

Healthcare management solution company MEDecision has entered into an agreement with data management company InSite One for the cross-licensing and reselling of technology, services and intellectual property.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and National Health IT Coordinator David Blumenthal, MD, this week announced the availability of $235 million in grants for beacon communities to act as models for health IT implementation.

CHICAGO--Digital dashboards help radiology practices keep their eyes on the road by providing information to help decision makers and stakeholders understand and adapt the practice, explained Paul Nagy, PhD, associate professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine in the department of diagnostic imaging at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, at the annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting.

CHICAGO--There can be a number of reasons in changing PACS, including the original vendor going out of business, no longer having a product that supports the work being done or a change in administration within a healthcare facility or a corporate decision, according to Steven Horii, MD, in a session titled "PACS Divorce" at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference on Monday.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare nonprofit organization Kaiser Permanente recently announced a pilot program designed to exchange electronic health record information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

CHICAGO--Radiology has eliminated physical limitations for health IT, said Chris Sistrom, MD, vice chair and associate professor of the department of radiology at University of Florida, during a Sunday scientific session at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting. Decision support systems benefit from the health IT boom, and emerging decision support tools utilize a comprehensive array of patient data to better inform decision making and enable evidence-based radiology.

CHICAGO--Modification of the order entry workflow can change physician behavior and result in fewer low-yield imaging orders, shared Vartan Vartanians, MD, clinical research associate at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Boston during a scientific session at the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) meeting.