The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg has invested in the Sectra Visualization Table for use by students in anatomy classes as a complement to dissection exercises.

Outpatient Diagnostic Center of Huntsville has upgraded to the GE Optima 450W MR system.

CHICAGODual-chamber permanent pacing can effectively reduce syncope events in patients with neurally mediated syncope who are over the age of 40, according to a late-breaking clinical trial presented March 26 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Session. In fact, one out of three patients could benefit from pacemaker therapy to telp thwart syncope events.

Individual organizations are progressing in their approaches to the development, management and use of integrated data repositories (IDRs) as a means to support a broad array of research, according to survey results from research published online March 21 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Clinical answers (CAs), a synthesized evidence-based summary that supports point-of-care clinical decision-making, will be a useful tool for pediatricians, according to an article published March 20 in BMC Pediatrics.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM have agreed to collaborate on the development of a tool built upon IBM Watson in order to provide medical professionals with improved access to current and comprehensive cancer data and practices. The resulting decision support tool will help clinicians create individualized cancer diagnostic and treatment recommendations for their patients based on current evidence.

Interoperability continues its slow but steady trudge forward with a few hiccups back. The latest steps forward include a rise in EHR adoption rate among primary care providers from 20 percent to nearly 40 percent since 2009, according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, national coordinator for health IT; and the announcement that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will advance the growth and spread of health information exchange by specifying the next layer of core standards and policies this year. One small step in place, if not backward, is the three-month delay in enforcement action against any entity that is required to comply with the HIPAA Version 5010 transaction sets.

Nurses are the largest workforce in the U.S., so their role in health IT is essential in reaching the potential benefits. Different organizations have incorporated nursing informaticists in a variety of ways.