For cardiology PACS, the explosion of cardiac-related advances across imaging modalities has created demand for expanded capabilities beyond simple image storage and distribution, providing physicians with access to patient-specific information related to images and reports within the facility or externally. Meanwhile, with this increased volume of image data, cardiologists also need to have access to more extensive patient data, such as hemodynamic monitoring, EKG and electronic medical record (EMR) information to create structured reports.

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has unveiled the Common Security Framework, an IT-security framework designed for healthcare data loss prevention.

Partners HealthCare has selected Compuware's Vantage, a component of the company's Business Service Delivery solution for monitoring application service quality with its EMR system.

Iron Mountain Digital, a provider of Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) for backup and archiving, has added Virtual File Store service to its digital archiving and StaaS portfolio.

The European healthcare document management systems market earned revenues of $530.6 million in 2008, and is expected to reach $753.7 million in 2014, according to market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

A little less than a month ago Barack Obama promised to wield technologys wonders to raise healthcares quality and lower its cost in his presidential inaugural address. Earlier this week in Denver, he signed an economic stimulus package that included nearly $20 billion for the development and delivery of healthcare IT.

Consolidated healthcare IT infrastructure promises to help fix the systemproviding clinicians streamlined access to multiple datasets to make timely, informed clinical decisions and removing artificial barriers between departments, physicians and hospitals.

Radiologists, administrators and IT professionals have worked hard to refine the acquisition, manipulation and storage of diagnostic images. But what about the special needs of referring physicians who increasingly want to access radiological images along with reportsincluding 3D renderings? Surprisingly, its not all that complicated.