Threatened with cutoff from Medicare reimbursements due to numerous safety violations, Parkland Hospital in Dallas has been working hard to heal its own wounds. Its clinical engineering department has played a crucial role in the effort. In an interview with Healthcare Technology Management, the departments director, Tom Collins, encouraged others to learn from the intense experience his team is living through as Parkland's compliance deadline approaches.

Clerity Healthcare, an IT solutions provider, has been selected by GE Healthcare as an exclusive systems integration technical solutions provider for GE Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers.

To be in the arena of health information exchanges (HIEs) right now is to be in a state of unrest as disruptive technologies and business models begin integrating themselves into the clinical collective consciousness. And yet, rattling the IT cages most likely settles into creature comforts once the providers become comfortable with the ephemeral nature of the state of HIEs.

GE Healthcare launched Centricity Business 5.0, its next-generation revenue cycle management tool for hospital networks, academic medical centers, large practices and physician billing groups.

Last week, St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Del., sent letters to nearly 500 maternity patients who had participated in its prenatal and maternity care program Tiny Steps in 2001 or 2002, notifying them that their personal healthcare information may have been compromised because of an inadvertently misplaced computer thumb drive.

General Dynamics has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Vangent Holding, the parent company of Vangent, a developer of health IT and business systems to federal agencies, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $960 million.

Researchers found the use of shutter-speed dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI has potential to improve breast cancer diagnostic accuracy and reduce biopsy procedures that often yield benign pathologic findings, according to a study published Aug. 9 in Radiology.

DALLASAHRA took a deep dive into healthcare reform and its impacts on the practice of radiology during an educational session Aug. 15 at its annual meeting.