eHealth Ontario, a health IT organization, is beginning work to ensure healthcare providers will be able to share electronic health information for Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents, who represent 47 percent of the provinces population.

Pepid, a drug data and clinical decision support health IT developer, has added duplicate therapy checking to its drug interaction checker.

Why aren't more radiologists CMIOs? One answer to this question can be found in a story by my colleague Lisa Fratt earlier this month. As she reported, a survey of 72 physicians attending the recent annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) asked what lessons they wish theyd learned in medical school. The results emphasized the need for leadership training and development at all levels.

WORCESTER, Mass.What started as a collaborative effort between Maine and New Hampshire to compare notes on data-gathering has become an initiative in nearly 15 states, with more on the way, said Josephine Porter, deputy director of the New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Porter made her comments during a presentation at the Massachusetts Governors 2011 Health IT Conference on May 10.

Nonin Medical has launched its Xpod, Model 3012LP, OEM Pulse Oximeter for medical monitoring manufacturers.

Boston Scientific today announced that Ray Elliott will retire as president and CEO on Dec. 31. The companys board has created a special CEO search committee, on which Elliott will serve as a member, to select its next president and CEO.

Toshiba has secured FDA clearance for its extra-large knee coil for the Vantage Titan MR system.

WORCESTER, Mass.As important as the specific incentives to providers have been, the electric shock that the meaningful use legislation has delivered to the IT market as a whole [has changed the market], stated David Blumenthal, MD, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School in Boston. There are currently about 700 certified EHR products and applications modules, said Blumenthal, former National Coordinator of Health IT, during his keynote address at the Massachusetts Governors 2011 Health IT Conference May 9.