March 20, 2012 | Diana Manos
Leaders of Merge Healthcare have announced a partnership with AG Mednet to provide life sciences companies with a full suite of tools to manage imaging clinical trials worldwide.

March 6, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
A study published in Health Affairs found that electronic health records don't necessarily lead to reducing health care spending or fewer diagnostic tests.

February 9, 2012 | Mike Miliard
McKesson announced Wednesday that it has acquired Sarasota, Fla.-based peerVue, which develops radiology workflow and communication solutions. The move helps broaden McKesson's portfolio of enterprise imaging and information management systems.

January 26, 2012 | Mike Miliard
M*Modal has partnered with Chicago-based Merge Healthcare to integrate its speech recognition and natural language understanding (NLU) technology across Merge's portfolio of imaging and IT offerings.

December 28, 2011 | Bernie Monegain
UPMC Bedford Memorial and UPMC Passavant hospitals join eight other UPMC facilities as being among the most advanced in the world for their use of comprehensive electronic medical records (EMRs), having achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 criteria for EHR use.

March 13, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Across the healthcare industry, we are seeing forward-thinking organizations develop new competencies in anticipation of the opportunity that comes with industry-wide transformation. They are positioning themselves for success. And they are defining the future of healthcare. Will your organization be ready? Register to learn more and listen to the session now!

November 9, 2011 | White Papers
Healthcare organizations are seeking to deliver a robust <a href="/directory/electronic-medical-record-emr" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">EMR</a> that’s accessible from multiple points of care. It’s what your patient and medical communities are loudly demanding - with the goal of gaining increased access to patient medical records, and enhanced capabilities with the records themselves. One vital component of an EMR is often overlooked: feature-rich, easy access to integrated, patient-centric, archived medical imaging records. Learn how you can design a cost-effective plan to reduce the complexity, time, cost, and risk in planning and deploying a comprehensive clinical imaging strategy.

August 22, 2011 | White Papers
Adopting an enterprise imaging strategy with “any image, anywhere, anytime” accessibility is not a technology issue. Hospitals that have embraced this strategy can react much faster when future advances in diagnostic imaging emerge, and have found they have distinct advantages including attracting and retaining physicians, protecting their patients from unnecessary radiation and duplicate tests, and preparing themselves for the inevitable decline in reimbursement rates. Learn the benefits for hospitals, referring physicians and patients.

July 1, 2011 | White Papers
Medical applications are among the most demanding users of network capacity, real-time performance, mission-critical reliability, and data security. Hospitals and medical centers are accelerating the pace of accessing and storing patient records via EMRs. In addition, the use of tablet computers to simplify record updates is growing. In March of 2011, a 45% increase was reported in health care professionals’ access to information by smartphone or <a href="/directory/ipad" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">iPad</a>. Considering that data centers storing these records are often not connected to the main hospital, or medical office building, all this adds up to an explosion of information straining existing network infrastructure. Due to these pressures, hospitals and clinics are increasingly looking to IT departments to improve productivity and control costs. Learn more about the many advantages of using high-capacity wireless links to replace fiber or aging copper-based leased lines.

August 11, 2009 |

Edgar D. Staren, MD

Chad A. Eckes

An often times overlooked aspect to implementing an electronic health record (EHR) is the need for a solid technical infrastructure.

May 10, 2011 | Industry News Release
Visual Healthcare Corp. (the "Company") (NASDAQ OTC: VSHC) announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Sygenics Life Sciences Software (Sygenics LSS) to market a 2nd generation of Lab Automation applications to serve the scientific community. This allows researchers to replace paper-based scientific records and paper-based scrapbooks with more dependable and secure electronic storage capabilities, as well as the ability to instantaneously share information with other scientists of their choice.

February 22, 2011 | Industry News Release
Continuing its momentum to help the healthcare industry improve patient care and reduce medical costs, AT&T* today announced two new patient care technology pilots, and new enhancements to the services delivered by AT&T ForHealth(SM), AT&T's healthcare practice area.

September 20, 2010 | HealthTech Wire
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen to extend its relationship with Carestream Health by signing a new multi-year contract for RIS/PACS eHealth Managed Services. The new contact will deliver an enterprise-wide solution with fast, secure image access by on-site and remote clinicians whilst removing the burden of infrastructure management and costs.

September 1, 2010 | Industry News Release
Radisphere National Radiology Group, a radiology interpretations provider, has secured agreements with two Tenet Healthcare facilities to provide a combination of on-site and remote interpretation services as well as full night-time radiology coverage, all with final interpretations.

July 28, 2010 | Industry News Release
ImageXpres Corporation today announced that its Surg-i-Scan "digital" Surgical Safety Checklist system has been approved by Apple Corporation and is now available as an Apple software "app" via the Apple iTunes Online Store.