Google should "come clean" and release the specific positions it advocated during its lobbying campaign on the economic stimulus law, according to the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog.

Workflow simulations can be used as way of understanding how systems will be fit into workflow and specific physical work environments, according to a narrated electronic poster presentation at the 2009 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference this month in Chicago.

CoActiv Medical Business Solutions has entered an agreement with NY Imaging Service of Newburgh, N.Y., for the distribution of its Exam-PACS, Exam-Vault Quad-Redundant Archiving and related digital image management products throughout the New York and Northern New Jersey regions.

Converting physician's notes into electronic documentation earlier in the typical implementation cycle for an inpatient EHR would give hospitals a more complete information base for quality management, according to a white paper from Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), a Falls Church, Va.-based consulting firm.

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W. Va., introduced legislation last week that will facilitate the nationwide adoption of EHRs, particularly among small, rural providers.

Infinitt North America, a provider of web-based RIS, PACS, cardiology PACS and advanced visualization solutions, has been awarded a multi-year contract to implement an enterprise-wide PACS solution at St. Joseph's Healthcare System, based in Paterson, N.J.

Health Choice Network, a Health Resources and Services Administration-sponsored health center controlled network, is implementing Sage Intergy CHC and Sage Intergy EHR for member community health centers in the United States.

Shared Health, a Tennessee-based public/private Health Information Exchange (HIE), has launched two new practice management tools, Clinical Insight and Condition Tracker.