CHARLOTTE, N.C.How do healthcare technology managers, a clinical engineering (CE) department or an outsourced service company understand the value that they bring to a particular provider? Raymond Ongirski, director of system clinical engineering at Alexian Brothers Health System in Arlington Heights, Ill., says: survey them, during a June 2 presentation at the 2012 AAMI (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation) Conference & Expo.

The Department of Diagnostic Imaging at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence has won Healthcare Technology Managements first-ever Best Practices in Healthcare Technology Management Awards.

Mach 7 Technologies, a developer of enterprise clinical image management technologies, has signed an agreement with Logicalis, an international IT technological and managed services company, to co-market vendor neutral archiving and cloud archiving offerings.

CSC will work with NextGate Solutions to integrate the NextGate Multi-Language Enterprise Master Patient Index with a range of the healthcare software applications provided by iSoft, which CSC acquired in July 2011.

CMIO's online newsletter will bring you a review of the weeks most-read stories each Friday. From another delay of Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) prepayment audits from CMS to a new federal mobile technology mandate from President Barack Obama, this week's news certainly covered the spectrum of health IT.

Sunshine laws appear to have little influence on physician prescribing of branded statins and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. An analysis that compared prescribing patterns in states that enacted disclosure laws with those with no such provisions found little difference in physician behavior. The results were published May 28 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

The most consistent predictors of physicians who use internet-based communication technologies were being male, being younger and having teaching hospital privileges, according to findings published online May 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The American Society of Radiologic Technologist (ASRT) Education and Research Foundation has named recipients of its spring 2012 professional and seed grants.