On the heels of a Consumer Reports investigation that raised new red flags over radiation risks, a specialty pharma company has announced plans to speed up its march to market a radio-protective compound that could be given to patients about to have CT or x-ray exams. 

Merge, the multispecialty software supplier based in Chicago, is partnering with Nashville-based Emdeon, which specializes in payment management systems, to offer the latter’s radiology customers a way to send electronic referrals and receive radiology reports from users of Merge’s iConnect Network.

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Step into one radiology reading room in Detroit and you may think you’ve been beamed into Captain Kirk’s bridge inside the Starship Enterprise. 

SAN DIEGO, CA - DR Systems (www.drsys.com), a leader in healthcare imaging and information technologies, was recently named one of the largest vendors of electronic health record (EHR) systems in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare, a major healthcare research and media company.   

Paul J. Chang, MD, loves live jazz, hates the ballet—and extends his taste to two different means of wringing useful business intelligence from medical imaging informatics.

When it comes to the federal meaningful use program, keep your eye on the prize—not the incentive dollars, advised Doug Fridsma, MD, former director, office of science and technology in the Office of the National Coordinator. With complexity rising and dollars declining, the greater objective in your deployment of health IT should be preparation for payment reform.

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is embarking on an ambitious gene-sequencing project with 11 genomics institutions in England. The objective is to find targeted treatments for a spectrum of illnesses.