The Carolina eHealth Alliance has performed its first live demonstration of a new online patient information system and critical data exchange at Summerville Medical Centers emergency department in Summerville, S.C.

Riverain Medical, a computer-aided detection company of image interpretation assistance, has received FDA clearance for its SoftView Enhanced chest imaging technology.

Carestream Health is now taking orders for the DRX-Mobile Retrofit Kit that allows healthcare providers to upgrade selected mobile x-ray systems to wireless DRX-1 technology.

It is critical that appropriate guidance--in the form of higher-level principles or recommendations--are used in selecting and applying a particular consent model for electronic health information exchange (HIE), according to a whitepaper developed by George Washington University under contract with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

As the date to make the switch from ICD-9-CM codes to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS looms over facilities, a webinar featured by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Tuesday aimed to ease the burden by communicating how to make the transition go smoothly and ease some of the concerns.

GE Healthcare announced it has acquired MedPlexus and its suite of product offerings, including ambulatory EMR practice and revenue cycle management software, will be added to GE's Centricity line.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently lanched the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Direct Project, an initiative that aims to create an easy-to-use process for relatively simple, local health information exchanges. Leading the project is Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC, who spoke with CMIO about the NHIN Direct initiative.

These are exciting times for the Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI), a public-private partnership spurring health IT innovation in the state. The institute received a $6M grant under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 to establish a statewide Regional Extension Center.