Hologic has received approval from the FDA for its Selenia Dimensions 3D digital breast tomosynthesis system.

Forcare successfully demonstrated a series of new profiles to accelerate the implementation of health information exchanges at the North American Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) connectathon, held last month in Chicago.

With the HIMS11 countdown dwindling to single digits, CMIO has kicked off our preshow coverage with a look at the top offerings for EMR/EHR, clinical decision support (CDS) and health information exchange (HIE) that will be featured throughout HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., next week. All three areas of health IT have taken the national spotlight in the past year, so its no surprise theyre front and center in Orlando, Fla., as well.

The Valley Hospital, a 451-bed acute care facility and member of Valley Health System in Ridgewood, N.J., has begun an enterprise-wide implementation of medical content provider Webmedxs QualityAnalytics clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and quality reporting tool.

Louise Schottstaedt, MD, and Jeff Sippel, MD, MPH, have been named co-chief medical information officers for Centura Health, Colorados largest healthcare network.

Researchers have found that individuals carrying a particular gene variant displayed structural brain differences on MRI consistent with Alzheimer's disease as they reached older ages, connecting dispersed findings and showing promise for early risk evaluation of Alzheimers, according to a study published in the February issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

MRI can help identify which patients with unclear-onset stroke might benefit from therapeutic intervention, according to research presented Feb. 10 at the American Stroke Associations International Stroke Conference 2011 in Los Angeles.

Southern Ohio Medical Center, a 222-bed medical center located in Portsmouth, Ohio, will deploy Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation MD software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in the hospitals cardiac catheterization lab.