Agfa Healthcare has signed a new agreement with DataFirst, a software engineering firm based in Raleigh, N.C., to provide data migration service capabilities and archival storage technologies for healthcare facilities.

Tri-City Medical Center of Oceanside, Calif., is teaming with UC San Diego Medical Center to offer telemedicine services for premature babies in greater San Diego.

The Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech) in Fort Wayne will begin offering an online associates program in health IT in July.

Writing on the Health IT Buzz blog, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, eviscerated the study published this week in Health Affairs that concluded that electronic access to medical imaging and lab results led doctors to order more imaging and blood tests.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) issued a request for public comment on privacy and security issues and best practices related to the use of mobile devices by providers and other healthcare professionals to access, store and transmit health information.

The Heart Failure Society of America's Guideline Committee updated its guidelines for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), concluding that evidence supports the use of CRT in patients with less severe heart failure (HF) symptoms. The guideline update appeared in the February issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure.

In an effort to increase the colorectal cancer screening rate, the American College of Physicians (ACP) issued a new clinical guideline urging adults to get screening starting at age 50. The guidance statement and a summary for patients appear in the March 6 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

IBM has named its Watson Advisory Board, comprised of medical leaders with expertise in areas such as primary care, oncology, biomedical informatics and medical innovation. The board will provide IBM with insights on healthcare issues that could be positively impacted by Watson technology adoption.