Whitegate Health Centre, a primary care facility for musculoskeletal and neurological services in Blackpool, England, has installed a Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI from Siemens Healthcare.

Bmeye, maker of combined noninvasive blood pressure and cardiac output monitoring, and Masimo, have jointly received CE Mark certification and launched the Bmeye ccNexfina noninvasive cardiovascular monitor with Masimo Rainbow SET pulse co-oximetry technologyin Europe.

Handheld devices, such as personal digital assistants and Apple's iPod Touch are prevalent among doctors, and these devices may be particularly useful for emergency radiologists, who in the near future, may be able to use them for teleconsultation and emergency procedures, according to a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Wireless networks are not optimized to support nurses at the point of care, according to a recent study from Spyglass Consulting Group on communications for nursing.

Philips Healthcare has donated nearly $1 million worth of medical equipment and supplies to be used by a team of 12 clinicians from Caritas Christi Health Care who traveled to Haiti this week to aid in the earthquake relief efforts.

Call it a checkup of sorts. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent letters to 31 U.S. hospitals asking about their experiences in implementing health IT under the $19 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Senator said he aims to ensure the effective and efficient use of taxpayer money in implementing health IT.

Medicaid programs in South Carolina, Alaska, Kentucky and Wisconsin will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the EHR incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported Thursday.

Acute adverse reactions from gadolinium-based contrast agents used during MRI to help improve the information seen on the images rarely occur, according to a study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.