Meaningful use (MU) criteria often covers elements irrelevant to radiology, however, an editorial published in the November issue of Radiology offers up new categories of criteria for health IT use to make the incentive program more effective at improving imaging.

Today, RamSoft announces the launch of PowerServer RIS/PACS/PM, a comprehensive workflow application for imaging centers in the United States requiring an all-in-one, web-based imaging workflow and practice management/billing solution that is also ICD-10 compliant.

Regina Harrell, MD, detailed a visit to one of her homebound patients and her difficulty in holistically recording his health using an EHR in an article published Nov. 17 on NPR.org.

To help hospitals successfully submit syndromic surveillance, lab results and immunization registries to their state’s designated public health agency as required by Meaningful Use Stage 2, MEDHOST today announced the launch of its “YourCareLink” service. By utilizing YourCareLink, hospitals can free internal staff to focus on other core measures required for Meaningful Use Stage 2 attestation and leave the labor-intensive management and monitoring of the public health information reporting to MEDHOST.

Quest International today announced that it has been appointed as an Authorized Reseller for Sony Electronics’ Medical Systems Division. Under the agreement, Quest will resell the Sony diagnostic monitors to qualified channel partners and end-users in the United States.

RamSoft expands its product line by offering PowerServer Nube, a Spanish language, hosted platform RIS/PACS for Latin America. PowerServer Nube will allow RamSoft to service markets in Latin America that have previously found RIS/PACS solutions to be cost prohibitive due to having to purchase multiple servers to run disparate software. PowerServer Nube is a scalable solution that is perfect for imaging centers, radiology groups, and hospital imaging departments that are looking to achieve a fully digital environment and improve patient care without significant capital investment. This new offering by RamSoft will allow hospitals and imaging centers to leverage the benefits of a fully hosted platform while reducing hardware and operational costs.

HealthCare Partners, LLC, based in Torrance, Calif., will expand its nationwide partnership with Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) by further deploying the Allscripts Enterprise(TM) Electronic Health Record (EHR) across its California medical group sites and selecting the FollowMyHealth(TM) patient portal and the dbMotion population health management solution.

A generalizable system that can be applied to multiple cancer endpoints and validated using large multibatch datasets is necessary for the success of clinical decision support systems (CDSS), reported a review published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.