NovaRad has signed three new PACS contracts with community hospitals and clinics in Nebraska.

Compared with white patients, black patients who have an in-hospital cardiac arrest are significantly less likely to survive to hospital discharge, having lower rates of successful resuscitation and post-resuscitation survival, although much of this survival difference was associated with the hospital in which black patients received care, based on a study in the Sept. 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Chief information officers (CIOs) spend more than half their time on activities designed to spur innovation within their organizations, according to a report conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) will not challenge a proposal by Memorial Health and St. Joseph's/Candler Health System to enter an exclusive joint purchasing agreement with respect to the purchase of certain medical and surgical supplies.

A commentary in the Sept. 9 online edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association sets out a framework of recommendations, based on a systems engineering model for patient safety, to help doctors and hospitals prepare for EHR expansion.

ProSolv CardioVascular, a Fujifilm company, has increased its outcomes reporting capabilities by partnering with Cedaron Medical to provide facilities with registry support for American College of Cardiology national and state clinical performance reporting.

Cardiac events are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery, and new guidelines issued Monday by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) at its annual congress in Barcelona, Spain, address this common and complicated challenge.

Facilities today compete with each other to attract patients, produce state and federally mandated quality metrics, and live in an unstable reimbursement environment. The days of collecting and storing clinical and patient data in disparate information systems are over.