Getinge has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Datascope, acardiac device company, for all of the outstanding shares of its commonstock for $53.00 per share, which will total approximately $865 million.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has named eight new commissioners and re-appointed five existing commissioners to serve two-year terms on its 21-member board beginning in October.

The majority of radiologists at eight academic medical centers are dissatisfied with their ability to access clinicalpatient information at the time of interpretation, according to resultsfrom a report published online before print in the Journal of Digital Imaging.The report also indicates that the lack of access to pertinent clinicalpatient data may be a critical element that limits the accuracy of theradiologist’s diagnostic decision-making process.

House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark, D-Calif.,plans to introduce a bill intended to encourage nationwide adoption ofEHRs this week, which will include a provision to impose penalties onhealthcare providers who fail to implement them.

VHA has launched its Cardiac Performance Dashboard, a management tool that allows hospital administrators and clinicians to monitor, manage and forecast their cardiac department’s clinical, financial and operational performance in real time.

The Health IT Now! Coalition Tuesday released a joint letter to U.S.House and Senate members urging them to redouble efforts to passlegislation for the creation of a nationwide EHR system.

Trends found among projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) point toward evidence of improvements in patient outcomes and experiences with the healthcare system by implementing teleheath systems, according to a new report from the National Resource Center.

New York’s participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network(NHIN) trial demonstrations will help the state advance its internalhealth IT strategy, according to officials with the New York eHealthCollaborative.