A few years ago, there was a move in medical imaging to use off-the-shelf consumer-grade displays, especially for those clinicians in a web-based and remote reading environment. These displays were inexpensive and widely available. Lately, though, there’s been a shift away from these commodity displays.

Although the United States spends a vast amount of money on healthcare, its successes--including in the health IT area--pale in comparison with other countries, concluded the authors of a report based on a Commonwealth Fund survey.

TeleHealth Services has partnered with GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions in the hospital communications market.

Health IT company Eclipsys has released its 2009 third quarter results, which ended Sept. 30, posting a 95.6 percent loss in net income compared with the 2008 third quarter.

Speech recognition application developer Nuance Communications has entered into a distribution partnership with London-based Dictate.it.

Despite the health IT adoption push following the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, many healthcare facilities may not be prepared to meet some of the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) requirements, based on the findings of the second annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society security survey.

Health IT company CareTech Solutions has reached an agreement in principle to acquire content management system provider Interactive Global Communications Network.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled with Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare and two former senior executives over their roles in an alleged accounting fraud that ultimately caused the company's stock price to drop by two-thirds during a seven-month period.