Healthcare providers realize that new technologies have to be adopted to improve their business, but the medical benefits of technology also are clearly in their sights, according to CompTIAs Healthcare IT Market: Insights and Opportunities survey.

Denver, Colo.-based Qwest Communications has been selected by Memorial Practice Management (MPM) in Yakima, Wash., to provide a communication network solution to connect seven MPM-managed healthcare clinics in central Washington state.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) will commence new studies regarding Medicare Part B imaging payments and the appropriateness of many emergency department scans, according to the recent OIG Fiscal Year 2010 Work Plan.

BioImagene has unveiled Crescendo, its new digital pathology workstation, this week at the 2009 College of American Pathologists conference in Washington, D.C.

Health officials in New Brunswick are conducting an external quality review of radiology procedures performed by Bhagwan Jain, MD, in that province between 2006 and 2009, after an earlier review of the radiologists work revealed certain irregularities.

Second-look sonography has value in the evaluation of abnormalities found on breast MRI, according to a retrospective review in this months issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Ontarios decade-long EHR initiative is in the middle of an ongoing scandal that has resulted in the resignation this week of the provinces health minister and the subsequent release of a special report from the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario blasting the initiatives spending practices.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics unit has published a white paper, The State of U.S. Hospitals Relative to Achieving Meaningful Use Measurements, offering an overview of market gaps in relation to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) compliance.