Baptist Health South Florida, a healthcare system serving communities in southern Florida, has selected IOS Health Systems for its Physician EHR Donation Program.

Maryland's highest court, the Court of Appeals, has affirmed a lower court ruling that prohibits physicians from referring patients for imaging procedures conducted by members of that referring physician's group.

 Royal Philips Electronics reported a net income of EUR465 million ($635.3 million USD) in the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of EUR205 million ($280.1 million USD) compared with fourth quarter of 2009, and sales within Philips Healthcare assisted its parent company to a successful quarter.

IT company Harris has been awarded a $10.6 million, one-year contract by the U.S. Information Systems Engineering Command to upgrade the communications and IT networks at 23 U.S. Army medical treatment facilities.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) submitted joint comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in response to a government report on health information exchange, which the ACR and RSNA said did not adequately consider current HIT integration initiatives.

Procedures in the operating room (OR) represented a large portion of hospital costs in 2007, and are concentrated in few procedure types, according to an article in the December 2010 edition of Archives of Surgery.

Further studies are needed to assess the value to patients and physicians of PET and PET/CT imaging in diagnosing the recurrence of highly malignant glioma, with the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) finding insufficient evidence to make any summaries or conclusions on the modalities' diagnostic values.

The remote and wireless patient monitoring market will grow an estimated 26 percent annually through 2014, according to a report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.