Carestream Health has signed a contract with Salt Lake City-based nonprofit health system Intermountain Healthcare for the implementation of its Carestream DRX-1 Systems and Carestream DRX-Mobile Retrofit Kits, which will upgrade the health system from CR and film-based imaging systems to DR.

Sixty-nine percent of responding medical students own an iPhone as a mobile device and 64 percent are planning to purchase an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, according to a report released by Epocrates.

Webmedx will harness NLP International's natural language processing (NLP) software to boost the data mining and search capabilities of Webmedxs QualityAnalytics product line.

When migrating to an EMR system, healthcare organizations should take an inventory of all their files to see what they are actually storing, begins the recently released best practices for adopting an EMR system from specialized service provider Cintas.

David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health IT, has selected two regional extension centers (RECs), completing a system of 62 organizations to help physicians, clinics and hospitals move from paper-based medical records to EHRs.

Successful malpractice payments on behalf of radiologic technologists (RTs) are very infrequent, despite widespread perceptions of an increasingly litigious environment for most healthcare providers, according to a study published in the September edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

Despite low vendor performance scores, best-of-breed vendors claim a majority of the oncology market with few providers planning to replace their current oncology systems in the near future, according to a report issued on Sept. 23 by research firm KLAS.

A newly developed nano-CT method visualizes minute, fragile bone structure and density changes at high resolutions and in 3D, according to research published Sept. 23 in Nature.