When it comes to HIPAA compliance, even if youre not where you want to be, thats no reason to panic, said Christopher Paidhrin, security and compliance officer at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash., during a session at the HIMSS virtual conference and expo on June 9.

Allscripts, a provider of clinical software, information and connectivity technologies for physicians, and Eclipsys, a provider of systems and services for hospitals and clinicians, have signed a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced the availability of $51 million in Health Insurance Premium Review Grants through the Affordable Care Act.

In response to a discussion draft of a new privacy bill currently under consideration by the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, 10 privacy and consumer organizations this week called for much stronger provisions to protect consumer privacy, including personal health information, both online and off.

Royal Philips Electronics has introduced the Achieva 3T TX Mobile MRI, the first mobile 3T MRI system implemented with MultiTransmit technology.

MINNEAPOLIS--GE Healthcare offered a sneak peek at its Centricity Dashboard as a work in progress in advance of a release slated for late 2010, during the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual conference this week

MRI technologies developer Invivo has released Expression, its new wireless MRI patient monitoring system.

MINNEAPOLISIts not all about technology, opined Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, vice chairman department of radiology at Brigham & Womens Hospital in Boston, who insisted that people and process are essential to the success of business intelligence systems, during his presentation at the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting last week.