Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Xerox company, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Nashville, Tenn.-based CredenceHealth, a software developer whose products capture and analyze patient data.

The Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF), a collaborative organization between regulators and medical imaging and health IT manufacturers from North America, Europe and Japan, has disbanded after a 19-year stint.

Growth in Medicaid enrollment under health reform will greatly outpace growth in the number of primary care physicians willing to treat new Medicaid patients, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.

Some 9 million working-age U.S. adults became uninsured in the last two years--or 57 percent of people who had health insurance through their employer, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2010 Biennial Health Insurance Survey. 

Aramark Healthcare has acquired Masterplan, a clinical technology management and medical equipment maintenance company, in order to expand its capabilities to service levels of hospital clinical technology, including MRI and CT scanners, as well as infusion pumps.

The Government of Canada, through the Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF), has enlisted FoneMed in a research and development effort to deliver the next generation of remote disease management services.

Essentia Health is entering an agreement with technology commercialization company HealthCare DataWorks (HCD) for business intelligence tools to support Essentia's enterprisewide data integration efforts.

With D.C. lawmakers trying to out-thrift (or at least out-maneuver) each other on the fiscal budget, this might not be the best time to ask for more money if youre employed by the people. But if you must, you should do so humbly.