Robert Watson has been appointed president and CEO of clinical documentation software developer Streamline Health Solutions.

Nonprofit health plan and care provider Kaiser Permanente opened the doors to a new medical facility, The Kaiser Permanente Capital Hill Medical Center, last week in Washington, D.C.

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).

Radiologists need to recognize teleradiology as a threat, and except in very limited circumstances, return to the standard modus operandi that includes covering night and weekend call, according to an article published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint against Boston Scientific and related Guidant entities under the False Claims Act for knowingly selling defective implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), the DoJ announced Jan. 27.

A federal judge from Texas has ordered Johnson & Johnson, and its subsidiary Cordis, to pay $482 million to radiologist Bruce Saffran, MD, after the jury found that the company infringed Saffrans patent (No. 5,363,760)Method and Apparatus for Managing Macromolecular Distribution.

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.