Using natural language processing (NLP) might facilitate the business of radiology, but the first step is understanding NLP.

The Government of the Northwest Territories in Canada has implemented Carestream Health CR systems. 

UC Health has appointed Anil Jain, MD, FACP, as senior vice president and CMIO. Jain, who currently serves as a senior executive and physician at the Cleveland Clinic, is a nationally recognized leader in the area of health IT, informatics and analytics. He will serve as UC Healths first CMIO and will lead the transformation of the systems IT infrastructure, according to the Cincinnati-based healthcare organization.

Extracting patient data that already exists in EMRs could expedite the process of collecting data for genetic studies, according to Electronic Medical Records for Genetic Research: Results of the eMERGE Consortium, a study published in Science Translational Medicine.

What does the accountable care organization discussion mean to you? Its been the phrase du jour for many months, and since the ACO guidelines were announced at the end of March, ACO-focused news and analysis have hit flood level. Academics, industry analysts, providers and payors are trying to decipher CMS 400-plus pages of proposed rules that will shape ACOs. Their revelations cover many aspects of these proposed organizations and some of the findings are contradictory. Consider:

European medical imaging markets are forecasted to exceed $5.6 billion by 2017, according to a new report from TriMarkPublications.

One-fifth of hospitals surveyed have implemented patient flow products, and nine out of 10 of those current users said they'd make this same choice again, according to a recent study by KLAS.

The American Medical Association (AMA)'s Amagine subsidiary has released its health IT platform, AMAGINE, which provides a range of health IT tools for physicians.