Kartal Kosuyolu Cardiac Research and Educational Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, has installed RamSofts PowerServer PACS to give more than 80 onsite physicians access to cases and image reviewing.

A recent survey found that Americans have mixed feelings on the appropriate roles for various healthcare interest groups in Washington, D.C.

Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems have announced they will support the first pilot programs designed to implement a federal government initiative designed to make it easier for individual to register and participate in government websites. The companies will act as digital identity providers using OpenID and Information Card technologies.

The University of Missouri and health IT developer Cerner are planning to create the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday that $27.8 million in grants would become available, through the the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to expand EHR and health IT adoption and usage in the United States.

Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committees markup of HR 3200Americans Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009Reps. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. and Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, offered, and then withdrew, an amendment to close the in-office ancillary services exception for advanced medical imaging under the Stark law.

Vida Diagnostics, a developer of quantitative imaging software for the analysis of pulmonary diseases, has appointed Susan A. Wood, PhD, as president and CEO.

Abnormal results on outpatient imaging tests sometimes may not receive timely follow-up even when clinicians receive and read results in an advanced, integrated EMR system, according to a study in the Sept. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.