Burton P. Drayer, MD, chair of the department of radiology and executive vice president for risk at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, has been elected president of the board of directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Aprima Medical Software has been selected to be an EHR vendor in AmericanEHR Partners, an online community developed to improve EHR system selection through ratings and reviews from practicing physicians.

Harold J. Apple has joined the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) as CEO and President, effective Jan. 24. Apple will lead the organizations overall strategy and direction and examine new growth opportunities for the Indianapolis-based IHIE.

Quality Systems, parent company of NextGen Healthcare, has announced the results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2010.

Falling procedure volume and spending will be capsized by expanded health coverage and five-year growth of up to 5 percent in imaging device sales, according to a report published by the Millennium Research Group.

The recent heated debate in the House of Representatives simmered over what to call its failed effort to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. So, did the healthcare reform law kill jobs or enable better healthcare for some?

Researchers have used fMRI to identify the left intraparietal sulcus as active in working memory for both visual and acoustic sensory inputs, complementing past imaging research indicating that individual brain regions can be responsible for multi-sensory functions, according to a study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) has inked a deal with Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) to use ICA's software to provide health information exchange (HIE) services statewide.