Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that Imaging Specialists of Charleston and Charleston Radiologists, P.A. has selected Merge Healthcare's entire Merge Outpatient Radiology Suite as well as Merge Honeycomb(TM) Archive."Because our organization is committed to providing the highest level of patient care and the latest technology available in our field, we've recently made the decision to align ourselves with a partner who can help to enable our ambitious plans for growth with leading technology," explained Michael Garovich, MD, President of Charleston Radiologists.

Net Health, the leader in software solutions for outpatient specialty care, has announced the availability of The Outpatient Wound Clinic Market Performance Report, developed using data from more than 700,000 patients and more than 1.5 million individual wounds documented in the WoundExpert® software, Net Health's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for wound management.Based on a review of wound data from 2010 through 2012, the report provides findings about wound clinic performance and clinical outcomes from the provider of the largest EMR solution in the industry.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Inland Northwest Health Services is improving patient care via their cloud-based electronic health record services delivered to physicians and medical facilities with IBM server and storage technology.(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO)The solution based on IBM System x servers, Storwize and DS8000 Storage systems, SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization technology and storage software, ensures high reliability, availability and efficiency for the EHR services INHS provides to 40 hospitals and 750 physicians in the northwest United States.

ITelagen, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare IT support announced the immediate availability of NextGenAnywhere™, a technology that delivers the NextGen® Ambulatory EHR to mobile devices. Now available for iPad and Android tablet mobile devices, NextGenAnywhere is powered by ITelagen's innovative EHRAnywhere™ platform to enable physicians the freedom and flexibility to access patient medical data and applications – where and when they are needed. NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, is a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII).As a NextGen® Certified Partner and VAR (Value Added Reseller), ITelagen is offering the NextGenAnywhere technology to provide physicians and staff with on-demand access to the application, enabling maximum productivity and mobility with their EHR.

The global market for medical-grade displays is projected to jump 29 percent between 2012 and 2017, rising from $2.5 billion to $3.2 billion, according to market information firm IHS.

An analysis of delays in diagnosis and treatment in the outpatient setting revealed a number of complex origins that call for even more advanced systems and performance measures to improve communication and coordination among providers.

Important image features have been identified in efforts to design a computerized algorithm for compressing CT images without reducing quality to the naked eye, which potentially could relieve pressure on network and storage resources, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

Stephen J. Ubl, president and CEO of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), issued the following statement after the introduction in the U.S. Senate of bipartisan legislation (S.1413) exempting FDA user fees from cuts under sequestration.