Viztek is working with Westbury. N.Y.-based Complete Radiology Reading Service (CRRS), in configuring the CRRS technology to a network of childrens hospital in Port au Prince, Haiti, in order for CRRS to help read imaging exams.

Health information exchange (HIE) company Medicity has been awarded a patent for its agent-grid technology for HIEs by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The agent-grid technology is a main component for Medicity's HIE integration program Novo Grid.

McKesson is offering the option to reduce the cost barriers associated with independent physician adoption of EHRs for a limited time.

Health IT company Voalt has announced that its point-of-care application, Voalt One, will be available on the Apple iPad platform.

The administration of President Barack Obama is requesting $911 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its 2011 federal budget proposal, with an additional $110 million requested for continued health IT efforts.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a contract bid to create a panel to identify and explore the negative unintended consequences of activities supported by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT in coordination with other federal agencies, including activities related to meaningful use of certified EHR technology.

InSite One announced it successfully tested its Actor/Roles profiles at the recent 2010 Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon North America.

Physicians have been increasingly adopting EMR systems, with an estimated 43.9 percent of physicians using a fully or partially functional EMR system in their office-based practices in 2009, according to an annual survey from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).