GE Healthcare and PeriGen are teaming up to incorporate decision support and monitoring capabilities into the GE Centricity Perinatal EMR system.

On May 13, Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chairman of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, participated on behalf of the American College of Radiology (ACR) in a public hearing hosted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) HIT Policy Committee (HITPC) Meaningful Use (MU) Workgroup on "Meaningful Use and Specialists" in Washington, D.C.

The global patient monitoring system market will reach $9.3 billion in 2014, driven by the growth in remote patient monitoring, according to a new report from Infiniti Research, conducted by TechNavio.

Sonoma Valley Hospital, a nonprofit district hospital in Sonoma, Calif, has selected Wolters Kluwer Healths ProVation Order Sets as its electronic order set.

Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center of Mishawaka, Ind., has purchased XRC Medical Imaging in South Bend, Ind., through an agreement with X-Ray Consultants.

Medical devices are becoming more integrated with hospital networks, which means the data on both the devices and the networks could become more vulnerable to security breaches.

There are no surefire ways to get patients to take medications as directed. However, systematically assembling evidence across reviews allows identification of effective or promising interventions to improve consumers use of medicines, as well as those for which the evidence indicates ineffectiveness or uncertainty, according to a study published in The Cochrane Library.

The second annual Heath IT: Improving Healthcare and the Economy regional conference brought health IT practitioners, industry leaders and ideas to Worcester, Mass., for a progress report on an array of initiatives in the six-state region. The breakout sessions showed that, when it comes to IT transforming processes, theres good news in New England: