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.

Iowas Medicaid program is the first to receive matching federal funds to plan for the implementation of an EHRs incentive program as established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

The problem of developing security mechanisms needed for management protocols and policy management of personal health information (PHI) remains largely unsolved, according to Gerald Masson, PhD, director of the John Hopkins University Information Security Institute, who spoke at an assembly hearing of the Health IT Standards Committee on Nov. 19.

David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, todayannounced plans to make available $80 million in grants to help develop and strengthen the health IT workforce in the community college setting.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) reported a 14 percent profit gain in the 2009 fourth quarter, despite a decline in revenue over the same period.