August 10, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare offers ‘Meaningful Use’ roadmaps and quality reporting tools to help healthcare providers achieve Health IT ‘Meaningful Use’ criteria, under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA).

Aug 10, 2009 - To help hospitals and imaging centers start new or build upon existing patient safety and quality care programs, AHRA is holding for the second year its Putting Patients First grant program.

August 10, 2009 - Merge Healthcare Inc., a health IT solutions provider, and Confirma Inc., the largest privately-held developer of computer assisted detection (CAD) software for medical imaging, have entered into a definitive agreement for Merge to acquire Confirma in an all-stock transaction, the total value of which is estimated to be $22 million.

August 10, 2009 – iPhone application estimates patients' cumulative radiation doses as a result of medical exams and then calculates the associated cancer risk.

August 7, 2009 - Merge Healthcare and HealthPartners, a non-profit health organization in the nation, completed a project to integrate a radiology PACS from Merge with an electronic health record (EHR) solution from Epic. The new platform is now used at St. Paul-based Regions Hospital and across 18 HealthPartners outpatient clinics and medical offices.

August 7, 2009 – Using 64-slice CT coronary angiography can avoid further invasive angiographies, which can add up to significant cost savings, according to a new study in the American Journal of Cardiology (August 2009, vol. 104, issue 4, pages 498-500).

August 7, 2009 - In order to increase productivity, healthcare providers have started to integrate many IT-based ancillary systems such as EMR, HIS and PACS, according to a presentation by Frost & Sullivan, held on Wednesday, 5th August 2009.

August 7, 2009 - DMS Health Technologies, a national mobile diagnostic imaging service provider, announces that it has signed a three-year agreement with Amerinet, a national group purchasing organization to provide Amerinet members with mobile diagnostic imaging shared services and interim rentals of mobile imaging products.

August 7, 2009 - Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) are among the relevant topics Siemens Healthcare will cover covered at its Innovations forum, which runs from August 8-12 in Philadelphia, Penn.

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