McKesson showcased the new enhancements to its Horizon Cardiologycardiovascular information system (CVIS) at the 2008 American Collegeof Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions in Chicago this week.

HealthCare Management Systems (HMS), an ArborMed company and provider of healthcare billing software, services and consulting, and CodeRyte have entered a strategic partnership to bring CodeRyte's computer-assisted coding technology to HMS-ArborMed and its clients.

Eligible participants for the Medicare’s prescription drug program areexpected to experience greater safety, increased use of lower-costgeneric equivalents and more efficient communication between theirdoctor and pharmacy as a result of a new regulation issued Wednesday bythe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

MedcomSoft has entered into a formal letter of agreement and strategicalliance with eQuality Healthcare Information for Physicians (eQHIP), awholly owned subsidiary of the Hawaii Independent Physician'sAssociation, for the purpose of deploying MedcomSoft’s EMR, MedcomSoftRecord, throughout Hawaii.

Cardiac Science has signed a letter of intent to begin establishingHeartcentrix connectivity with Misys Healthcare’s Misys MyWay EMRsystem.

Healthcare executives repeated a call for the federal government tohelp promote national standards for sharing healthcare performancedata in the United States during a forum sponsored by the JointCommission (JC) in Chicago last week.

CHICAGO—Cardiac Science, a provider in advanced cardiac diagnosis,resuscitation, rehabilitation and informatics products, has completedcertification for its HeartCentrix ECG informatics software withNextGen Healthcare Information Systems, according to an announcementmade at the 2008 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions.

Michael Holland, a previous Siemens and Lawson sales executive, hasbeen appointed by StatCom to lead the company’s sales team as itlaunches a targeted sales and marketing program.