RIS/PACS provider Visage Imaging has released Amira 5.3, a new software platform for visualizing, analyzing and presenting complex 3D and 4D biomedical data.

Thumb MRI and Cleveland Clinic subsidiary Clinical Medical Services have finalized an agreement to bring imaging technology and radiology services to rural Michigan.

Medhost has launched Care Clock, software that allows hospitals to publish current emergency department (ED) wait times on their websites so patients can make more informed decisions about where to seek care for non-urgent problems.

For home health agencies, homecare-specific vendors' focus and attention generally outweigh the potential for integration with an enterprise vendor's EMR, according to a KLAS report.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will expand investment in broadband for medically underserved communities across the U.S. 

If data will move healthcare forward, integration tools will move the data. As the first wave of meaningful use analysis builds and breaks, system interoperability and integration tools have newly defined importance in the final rules. The spotlight will be on healthcare data and how those are used, and gathering that data and delivering it in a useful, (meaningful) way begins with devices.

Siemens Healthcare now is offering a new multi-functional workstation for urology, the Uroskop Omnia, which has just received FDA clearance.

Socio-economic factors may impact physicians' decisions to treat patients with drug-eluting stents (DES). A study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions showed that African-American patients, Medicaid beneficiaries and the uninsured were least likely to receive DES during PCI procedures.