Researchers from the Georgetown University Student Consulting Team and Booz Allen, a consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Va., interviewed healthcare providers to determine if there were a common set of trends, challenges and lessons learned through their ICD-10 implementation efforts.

Sameer Badlani, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, has been appointed CMIO for the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Monrovia, Calif.-based Radcal, best known as a manufacturer of radiation measuring systems, has agreed to distribute the Sedentex CT Mini imaging phantom manufactured by Leeds Test Objects of North Yorkshire, England.

Siemens Healthcare has joined with Lammers Medical Technology to offer the nomag IC MR diagnostics incubator system for the transport of newborns and premature babies as an add-on to Siemens 1.5T and 3T MR systems.

More than 1,000 hospitals have embraced online social networking. Its as much for them as for the 4,700 or so that have avoided the resource that ECRI Institute has released a new risk analysis, "Social Media in Healthcare," and made it available for free downloading.

Following up on a November 2011 voluntary recall of nine lots of its BIS bilateral brain sensors, Covidien has expanded the lot count to 58.

Interoperability is a broad, overarching term that really describes a monumental goal for healthcare. True interoperability means that any authorized provider can access relevant healthcare data about a specific patient and send that information on to other authorized clinicians to avoid repetitive tests and exams, provide faster treatment and experience better outcomes.

Brian A. Hannah, MD, has been appointed CMIO at Aria Health, a healthcare provider in Northeast Philadelphia and Lower Bucks County.