Diagnostic imaging services provider DMS Health Technologies has signed a contract with Hardtner Medical Center in Olla, La. to provide mobile MRI services to the facility on Saturdays.

Healthcare IT and teleradiology provider RamSoft has launched ReadFromAnywhere.com, which features the companys web-based medical imaging software.

Responsibility and accountability are a couple of buzzwords that are working their way into the general healthcare discussion more and more frequently. As the country looks for pay-for-performance care models that reward high-quality care, not high patient volumes, accountability and defined responsibility are part of the plans.

athenahealth is now offering its web-based EHR, athenaClinicals, as a stand-alone service.

Philips Speech Processing has the released the third generation of its SpeechMike audio recording devices, adding functions that were previously limited to the wireless SpeechMike Air to the companys wired dictation devices.

HTH Worldwide, a global health and safety services company, has developed six new mPassport destination-specific iPhone applications for finding quality healthcare services in major cities in East and Southeast Asia.

Drug-eluting stents (DES) sustain a prognostic benefit up to five years following PCI, based on a survival analysis published in the September issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.

Healthcare may be a niche market for smartphones, but it has significant growth potential, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information. The New York-based firm cites high rates of physician use of smartphones and PDAs and available applications among many factors making healthcare ideal for smartphone sales.