Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM This interactive conversation among participants is designed to elicit specific, major challenges and successes experienced in the effort to improve outcomes with CDS, and thread together themes and pearls. The goal is for each attendee to leave the session with specific, actionable lessons from the interchange that will be valuable in their CDS efforts.

Sunday, February 28, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDS, expressed through CPOE, analytics, information prompts, and more, is essential for achieving many meaningful use objectives. Understand current requirements and how to optimize your capabilities now, and discuss future policies and enablers to improve adoption and impact.

Clinical decision support has reached a critical juncture. Technology improvements enable CDS systems to gather a wider variety of patient data to provide more useful advice that assists clinicians decision making. Converging standards and integration initiatives enable more stand-alone CDS tools to work together in actual systems.

Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, has released an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Siemens Healthcare has implemented its Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, England, for general musculoskeletal, neurological, breast and renal scanning.

Non-invasive MR Imaging is highly accurate in the preoperative characterization and local staging of testicular neoplasms and is a useful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of testicular disease, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Boston Scientific is not closing international headquarters in Paris and Tokyo, as we incorrectly reported last week. It is eliminating its Natick, Mass.-based International headquarters. The corrected article can be read here. We apologize for any confusion.

Health IT company Clinical Architecture (Booth #812) will introduce Symedical Recognize and new healthcare content integration services during HIMSS10 in Atlanta from March 1-4.