Imaging company Health Images and the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), both based out of Denver, have announced that Health Images will now be sending radiology results performed at its 12 locations into the CORHIO health information exchange (HIE). 

A study published by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management has conducted the first empirically based clinical model of compassion based on the analysis of the Straussian theory when applied to advanced cancer patients.

InformationWeek, an online magazine examining technology in the business world, included 17 healthcare companies in its Elite 100.

A recent op-ed from the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the healthcare industry’s progress in patient safety since a groundbreaking report from 2001.

Humans have won, at least temporarily, the latest battle in man versus machine. Johnson & Johnson ceased selling its anesthesiology robot.

More than 46 million of the 154 million prescriptions for antibiotics written in 2010 and 2011 were inappropriate, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A study from Johns Hopkins Medicine places medical errors as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind only cancer and heart disease.

Quintiles and IMS Health have agreed to merge in a $9 billion deal that will create an IT leader in the life sciences industry that will link patient records to healthcare management apps using IMS’s cloud model, reports ZDNet.