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The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) has garnered support from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) for the alliance's efforts to deliver thousands of sustainable diagnostic digital imaging systems to developing communities around the world.
The American College of Radiology plans to launch the National Mammography Database in July, part of a warehouse of the ACR registry databases.
A new survey from Microsoft Corp. shows that Americans want their doctors and their health plans to use technology to help them become healthier.
More than 50 percent of healthcare providers believe the billions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earmarked for healthcare information technology will have little to no success in encouraging adoption, according to a recent survey.
Two protesters scrambled onstage Thursday at the start of a session at America's Health Insurance Plans' annual conference, momentarily upstaging moderator Susan Dentzer before she introduced three former governors slated for the opening keynote.
The market for electronic medical record data transfer equipment and applications, valued at $575 million in 2008, is forecast to reach $1.6 billion in 2013, according to a study by research firm Kalorama Information.
The Department of Health Care Finance, the District of Columbia's state Medicaid agency, is implementing a Medicaid-focused health information exchange pilot project, which officials expect to be up and running within a year.
Targeting a $150-billion-a-year chink in the nation’s healthcare armor, Ingenix is shoring up its payment accuracy technology with the acquisition of AIM Healthcare Services, Inc.
Sweden rolled out the first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary initiative last month, according to the project's partnering IT vendors, InterSystems and Tieto. The nationwide EHR is billed as one of the first of its kind in the world.
The FDA does not have a comprehensive IT strategic plan to coordinate and manage its current modernization projects, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.