CSC will work with NextGate Solutions to integrate the NextGate Multi-Language Enterprise Master Patient Index with a range of the healthcare software applications provided by iSoft, which CSC acquired in July 2011.

CMIO's online newsletter will bring you a review of the weeks most-read stories each Friday. From another delay of Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) prepayment audits from CMS to a new federal mobile technology mandate from President Barack Obama, this week's news certainly covered the spectrum of health IT.

Sunshine laws appear to have little influence on physician prescribing of branded statins and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. An analysis that compared prescribing patterns in states that enacted disclosure laws with those with no such provisions found little difference in physician behavior. The results were published May 28 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

The most consistent predictors of physicians who use internet-based communication technologies were being male, being younger and having teaching hospital privileges, according to findings published online May 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The American Society of Radiologic Technologist (ASRT) Education and Research Foundation has named recipients of its spring 2012 professional and seed grants.

The diet and activity levels of patients may be improved through use of mobile technology, remote coaching and financial incentives, according to findings published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

lifeIMAGE is releasing certain open application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be used by developers of healthcare IT or imaging devices to enable the secure exchange of medical images and related patient records directly from its software.

Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto has launched a public-private program to develop and commercialize four new types of image-guided treatment and monitoring systems to provide minimally invasive treatments for patients with cardiac diseases and cancer. The technologies include a hybrid catheter, two MRI-based technologies and a system to monitor therapies.