If the no-increase-in-revenues position prevails, both Medicare and Medicaid, as well as other healthcare spending and all other domestic social spending, will inevitably be subject to cuts so large that they will make it quite impossible to meet the commitment the U.S. made to assure the aged, disabled and poor a standard of healthcare similar to that enjoyed by other Americans, according to a perspective published Oct. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Draeger Medical has released its Innovian Anesthesia 4.0, a clinical anesthesia information management system, developed for perioperative care environments in hospitals and surgical centers.

Thomson Reuters of Ann Arbor, Mich., has launched the Infection Xpert, a clinical intelligence dashboard to help manage and reduce hospital-acquired infections, capture and submit mandated infection reporting metrics, as well as analyze hospital infection data.

Imaging software developer and image viewer provider Accusoft Pegasus has acquired document viewing technology developer Adeptol and all its assets.

A report this month sponsored by health IT services company MedSynergies found 70 percent of responding U.S. hospitals and health systems plan to employ more physicians in the next 12 to 36 months.

Communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital Group has released health IT funding and merger and acquisition activity for the third quarter, noting a greater quarter with $207 million in venture capital funding.

A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that cloud computing has both positive and negative information security implications for federal agencies.

While state revenues slowly rise from the declines of 2009 and 2010, there remain budget shortfalls sizeable enough to motivate states to change, consolidate and reduce, according to a survey of CIOs from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).