PACS vendor Medweb of San Francisco is offering a free electronic health record (EHR) application with its virtualPACS gateway module.  

CynergisTek is making its data loss prevention software available for healthcare organizations.  

Clario Medical Imaging of Seattle and Tidal Pool Software plan to integrate Tidal Pool's Radiation Passport into Clario's zVision unified worklist.  

The time is now to integrate medical images into electronic health records, for any hospitals planning healthcare IT upgrades to receive stimulus funds, a PACS implementation expert told attendees last week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual meeting in Atlanta.  

Archiving services provider InSite One is partnering with data protection firm Venyu of Baton Rouge, LA, to help healthcare providers manage electronic medical data.  

Speech recognition and transcription technology provider MedQuist has inked a contract to provide transcription outsourcing services to Detroit Medical Center (DMC).  

VIENNA - Carestream Health is using this week's European Congress of Radiology to demonstrate new configurations of its DRX-Evolution line of digital radiography suites.  

GE Healthcare has launched its Centricity Imaging Enterprise Archive 4.0 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting in Atlanta.  

Italian ultrasound vendor Esaote has introduced a new RIS/PACS package called Estensa at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria.  

ATLANTA - Speculation about every aspect of healthcare IT adoption is the name of the game at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting this week. Statistics and formal trend analysis presented in an educational session titled "KLAS and HIMSS Analytics Speak Out: What's Real and What Isn't" provided a reality check.  

Medical software developer Atirix Medical Systems has added several new features to its QC-Track software.  

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has outlined the proposed approach for establishing a certification program to test and certify electronic health records (EHRs).  

ATLANTA - "Show me the money." This oft-quoted line memorialized in the film "Jerry Maguire" would be as appropriate a theme for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 annual meeting, being held this week, as its official motto: "Change is everywhere ... opportunity is here."  

The board of directors for PACS vendor Amicas has concluded that Merge Healthcare's $6.05 per-share offer ($248 million) to buy the firm is a "superior proposal" to the $5.35 per-share bid ($217 million) from Thoma Bravo.  

GE Healthcare has launched its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform, designed to expand services for health information exchange, a clinical portal, and a patient health management system.  

Advanced visualization and healthcare IT developer Merge Healthcare has signed a partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to test new mobile healthcare applications.