McKesson has reported single-digit gains for both net income and revenue in the second quarter of 2010, which ended Sept. 30.

Research In Motion launched the new BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, featuring Client Outlooks eUnity that allows clinicians to view diagnostic quality images from any web browser while using the internet.

CareFusion has selected Palomar Pomerado Health in San Diego as development partner for its line of Pyxis technologies for medication and supply management.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, chief of the division of biomedical informatics in the department of medicine, have received two federal grants totaling more than $25 million to develop ways to gather, analyze, use and share vast amounts of biomedical information.

The N.Y. Department of Health and the N.Y. eHealth Collaborative have submitted a proposal to spend $129 million in state and federal money on a network that will allow all medical records to be accessed statewide. The plan would create the country's largest network for EMRs, according to the proposal.

Healthcare IT company Merge Healthcare has been selected by Massachusetts-based integrated delivery system Northeast Hospital Corporation (NHC) for its PACS and enterprise content manager (ECM) technology.

7T MR angiography (MRA) demonstrated significantly improved image quality across several quantitative parameters compared with 3T MRA, a study published in the October issue of Radiology reported.

Weekly self-testing to maintain warfarin anticoagulation produced similar results to monthly high-quality clinic testing, suggesting that self-testing could be an option for patients in rural areas or with other transportation challenges, according to the results of the THINRS study published in the Oct. 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.