Baptist Regional Medical Center, a 240-bed facility in Corbin, Ky., has implemented Wolters Kluwer Healths VeriForm for its medication area inspections.

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, through its Wireless Technologies and Systems Committee, has launched a mobile initiative to encourage healthcare systems to improve care delivery via a global wireless ecosystem.

A best practices education program targeted to technologists, radiologists and physicists produced significant improvements in MRI image quality and protocols, according to a column in the April edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Sunquest Information Systems has launched CoPathPlus v5.0, a software program developed to support the workflow and reporting needs of anatomic pathology.

New techniques aimed at reducing radiation exposure and curbing duplicate tests are coming online, and the movement to measure cumulative medical radiation exposure in EHRs is gaining steam. Clinical decision support systems might seem like the logical place for dose/image conscientiousness to take root. That might stand to reason, but it isnt always the case, according to a study in the April edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

More than two-thirds of ambulatory providers surveyed are not sharing medical records electronically with patients and nearly half have not implemented clinical decision support rulestwo key requirements for meaningful usea KLAS report revealed.

The American Journal of Roentgenology has published two separate studies this month demonstrating the clinical acceptance of Naviscans Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) scanner. The first study concluded that breast radiologists can achieve a high level of diagnostic performance in interpreting PEM images after a two-hour tutorial. The second study established a standard lexicon for the evaluation of PEM images.

Steven Palmer, PhD, took top honors in the West Wireless Health Institute Developers Challenge for his Veterans Melanoma Early Warning System, a wireless application that alerts a user to early signs of the most dangerous form of skin cancer and can send information to a healthcare provider.