Federal attorneys, acting on behalf of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, filed a 39-page brief in the U.S. District Court of Richmond in Virginia this week, in an attempt to dismiss Virginias lawsuit against the Obama Administrations healthcare reform law.

Mobile x-ray-based imaging technologies provider Ziehm Imaging and cardiology and Netherlands-based radiology software provider Pie Medical Imaging (PMI) have partnered for the integration and distribution of PMI's cardiovascular angiography analysis system with Ziehms mobile cardiovascular imaging technologies.

The DAPT [Dual-AntiPlatelet Therapy] trial has expanded into seven countries in the European Union, according to the Harvard Clinical Research Institute.

General Electric has released the inaugural annual report for healthymagination, its business strategy for sustainable healthcare, which detailed the milestones since its May 2009 kickoff, including the 24 products and services launched and a $700 million investment in research & development (R&D).

Gentiva Health Services has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Odyssey HealthCare in an all-cash transaction for a price of $27 per share of Odyssey common stock, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1 billion.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded CGI Federal a five-year contract worth $73.2 million to continue its modernization, application management and maintenance efforts on three external websites that provide information to 44 million beneficiaries, as well as healthcare providers and other stakeholders.

Evidence suggests evolution does not happen at a uniform speed in a predictable way; it happens in fits and starts. So National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal's use of the phrase "natural evolution" last week to describe what's happening with the Nationwide Health Information Network is an interesting choice of words.  

Baptist Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare system in Alabama, has selected Compuwares EHR service delivery technology to monitor the performance and availability of its EHR systems to ensure service-level agreements are being met.