Viztek, the digital imaging solution provider, announced today an upgrade to its Opal-Ortho PACS solution for orthopedic practices. The solution offers one single appliance that controls every aspect of orthopedics imaging, integrating the DR or CR solution and the PACS for optimal efficiency. MORE

Health 2.0 announced today that it has awarded more than $1 million to health care innovators through its Developer Challenge series. The challenges, sponsored by both public and private entities such as the Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Novartis, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Walgreens, bring multidisciplinary teams of developers together to address a specific, real-world health care issue. MORE

Merge Healthcare Incorporated, a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced that Advocate Health Care, one of the nation's top 10 health care systems,* will implement Merge's complete cardiology solution suite to capture, manage and display cardiac images, and hemodynamics and ECG data across its enterprise of more than 250 care sites, including 10 acute-care hospitals and two integrated children's hospitals. MORE

ICA (www.icainformatics.com), a leading provider of interoperability technology that enables health information exchange (HIE), announced today it has contracted with Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (www.chesapeakeregional.com) in Chesapeake, VA to develop interoperability and data exchange for this regional integrated delivery network (IDN) located in southeastern Virginia. Chesapeake Regional Medical Center covers the Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Newport News areas of coastal Virginia, as well as parts of northeastern North Carolina, a metropolitan region with a population of approximately 650,000. Chesapeake Regional Medical Center had more than 133,400 patient visits in 2011. MORE

Demonstrating its commitment to the healthcare industry, Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced that Amcom Software has been certified on its OpenScape Voice platform, allowing healthcare enterprises to easily leverage Amcom console platforms with the OpenScape portfolio for next-generation clinical communications. MORE

InterSystems Corporation, a global leader in software for connected care, today launched the next generation of its InterSystems HealthShare™ strategic informatics platform for interoperability and active analytics. Designed originally for public health information exchanges (HIEs) at regional, state and national levels, HealthShare has been extended and rearchitected to also deliver the advanced technologies needed by integrated delivery networks (IDNs). MORE

Orion Health, the leader in health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions, today announced that the North Texas Accountable Healthcare Partnership (the Partnership) has selected the Company’s HIE solution for access to and sharing of comprehensive patient data. Together, the Partnership and Orion Health will connect 12,000 physicians serving nearly seven million patients in more than 140 hospitals and 7 integrated delivery networks in the entire Dallas-Fort Worth area and surrounding 13 counties. The HIE, powered by the Orion Health technology backbone, will enable the implementation of preventive care coordination programs that will improve patient care and safety and make medical care more cost effective for the region’s many large self-insured employers, hospitals, health systems, clinics and other provider facilities. MORE

LEAD Technologies, Inc. has released two new LEADTOOLS add-on products for multi-platform and mobile device application development: Document HTML5 Module and Medical HTML5 Module. These products not only keep up with the latest in web development trends, but also provide LEADTOOLS imaging technology to a much broader spectrum of programmers targeting mobile devices and non-Windows platforms. MORE

Users of Elekta's MOSAIQ® Oncology Information System (OIS) – the first comprehensive, oncology-specific EMR certified for meaningful use under the federal government's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – have begun completing the "attestation" process to prove meaningful use. Fulfilling attestation requirements qualifies users of MOSAIQ and other systems to receive payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of up to $44,000 over five years under Medicare rules. MORE

MEDSEEK, a leading provider of online strategic patient engagement and analytics solutions for healthcare organizations, announced today that Silver Lake Sumeru, Essex Woodlands and MEDSEEK management have signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Company. MEDSEEK's software platform helps healthcare organizations attract and retain patients and improves patient experience and care through enhanced patient-doctor communication and information accessibility.   MORE