Delft Imaging Systems has installed its Odelca-DR digital x-ray camera system at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute in Cape Town, South Africa.

Health IT developer Allscripts' customer rapport has dwindled following its merger last year with Misys, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.

A summarized form of EHRspart of a plan expected to roll out across England over the next yearhas gone online in the city of London, the U.K.'s Department of Health announced yesterday.

Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced legislation last week that would help underwrite efforts by family doctors and other small medical practices to modernize their patients records and prescriptions.

The Royal Victoria Infirmary, part of Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has installed a Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI system from Siemens Healthcare.

Shimadzu of Kyoto Japan, and EDDA Technology of Princeton, N.J., have entered into a business partnership for digital chest x-ray computer-aided detection (CAD).

Healthcare officials in Washington are discussing standards for the technical architecture of modern health information exchanges. And while such standards havent yet been finalized to meet the objectives of meaningful use of electronic medical records, the U.S. government starts doling out $564 million in grants to states in early 2010 to fund state-level networks for exchanging electronic patient information.

Technology support services company DecisionOne has forged a hardware maintenance agreement with the EHR provider Allscripts.