Healthcare IT and teleradiology provider RamSoft has launched ReadFromAnywhere.com, which features the companys web-based medical imaging software.

Responsibility and accountability are a couple of buzzwords that are working their way into the general healthcare discussion more and more frequently. As the country looks for pay-for-performance care models that reward high-quality care, not high patient volumes, accountability and defined responsibility are part of the plans.

athenahealth is now offering its web-based EHR, athenaClinicals, as a stand-alone service.

Philips Speech Processing has the released the third generation of its SpeechMike audio recording devices, adding functions that were previously limited to the wireless SpeechMike Air to the companys wired dictation devices.

HTH Worldwide, a global health and safety services company, has developed six new mPassport destination-specific iPhone applications for finding quality healthcare services in major cities in East and Southeast Asia.

Healthcare may be a niche market for smartphones, but it has significant growth potential, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information. The New York-based firm cites high rates of physician use of smartphones and PDAs and available applications among many factors making healthcare ideal for smartphone sales.

Healthcare organizations and vendors, take note: Registration opened this week for HIMSS11s Interoperability Showcase, and would-be participants should be able to register for the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon event by the end of the week. During the Connectathon event Jan. 17-21, 2011, systems from multiple vendors exchange information and perform the transactions required for the roles they have selected, called IHE Actors, in support of clinical use cases called IHE Profiles. Systems will demonstrate their ability to exchange data in real time at the HIMSS11 Interoperability Showcase in late February.

Medical imaging equipment distributor Associated X-Ray Imaging, based in Haverhill, Mass., will represent radiological systems manufacturer Diagnostic Imaging Specialists as of Aug. 1.