Shimadzu Medical Systems introduced two analog x-ray systems at the 2009 meeting of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) in Las Vegas this week.

Viztek has installed its Opal-Ortho PACS software and U-Arm DR system at North Shore Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine in Smithtown, N.Y.

An EHR program cut cardiac deaths by 73 percent through linking coronary artery disease patients and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists with an EHR. It also kept the patients healthy two years after they left the program by keeping them in touch with their caregivers electronically, according to a randomized trial published in this month's American Journal of Managed Care.

The National Governors Association's State Alliance for e-Health Tuesday issued a report, which is intended to give interim guidance to state leaders as they begin to implement the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

Louisiana State University (LSU) Health System will deploy GE Healthcare's RIS, PACS and diagnostic reporting system.

Healthcare IT developer Allscripts has selected Merge Healthcare's Cedara WebAccess software application to "image enhance" Allscripts' EHR solutions.

Agfa Healthcare recorded a 5.8 percent slide in sales for its fiscal 2009 second quarter and attributed the downturn in part to the overall global economic slump.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has opened a global services office in Brussels, Belgium.