California Health Information Partnership and Services Organizations (CalHIPSO), a federally designated regional extension center (REC) in California, has selected eClinicalWorks as a first-round EHR Partner for its primary care providers.

Albemarle Health, in Elizabeth City, N.C., will deploy iMDsofts MetaVision clinical information system tool throughout its pre- and intra-operative environments to standardize and assist data collection and track performance measures.

ORLANDO, Fla.--The changing healthcare landscape has driven the George Washington Hospital to invest time, effort and energy in ED processes that had been neglected, said Neal Sikka, MD, director of emergency medicine at the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates in Washington, D.C. Access to data also spurred improvement, said Sikka, speaking at HIMSS11 conference last week.

Community radiologists can select from an array of dose management strategies to counter the wave of alarm over the small and unproven risks of low-dose radiation that is sweeping the country and threatens to undermine the considerable benefits that accrue from careful and judicious use of modern CT technology, according to a clinical perspective published in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.

Bethesda Health Group, a senior care and services organization in St. Louis, Mo., has begun utilizing Cerner's Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) platform, built on the company's BeyondNow software architecture.

Wikis, collaborative websites where content can be edited by anyone who has access to it, could be transformational tools in health IT. For radiology residents at Indiana University Health (IUH), that transformation is already under way. Researchers at IUH's department of radiology and imaging sciences in Indianapolis found that radiology residents at IUH reported visiting IUHs wiki on average more than five times per week, with one resident reportedly visiting the site 20 times per week.

BayCare Health System, a community-based health system in the Tampa Bay area, will provide eClinicalWorks EHR technology to its approximately 3,000 physicians.

Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, Calif., has installed Toshibas Infinix VF-I bi-plane vascular x-ray system for diagnostic and interventional procedures.