Agfa HealthCare, a provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has been awarded a new three-year contract by the group purchasing division of Premier, Premier Purchasing Partners, to provide CR products at terms and conditions to the alliance's nearly 2,200 member hospitals and 63,000 other alternate healthcare sites in the U.S.

The Board of Directors for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) recently announced Alan F. Dowling, PhD, will succeed Linda Kloss as CEO of the Chicago-based health information management (HIM) organization.

Agfa HealthCare, a provider of diagnostic imaging and health IT solutions, has signed an agreement with Curagita Holding to acquire all the shares of its subsidiary Insight Agents, a European developer of contrast media, with business activities mainly in Germany.

InSite One, a provider of medical data archiving and disaster recovery managed services, has created a health information exchange (HIE), spanning more than 600 healthcare institutions across the U.S.

The Small Business Health IT Financing Act, which includes a provision authorizing the Small Business Administration to guarantee health IT loans to small business health practices or medical professionals, was passed by the House of Representatives last week.

The Carolina eHealth Alliance has selected Telus Health Solutions' health information exchange (HIE) product, Oacis HIE, to electronically connect patient records across 12 disparate emergency departments in South Carolina.

Computer-assisted detection developer Riverain Medical has formed a partnership with Canadian medical imaging distributor, Christie Group.

Radiography systems provider IMIX Americas and x-ray equipment developer Arcoma have entered into a cooperation agreement that will enable the two companies to expand their DR offerings within the U.S.