There is a Charlton Heston quote I have always remembered: The secret to a great marriage is a great husband. I like telling my wife I have followed his advice. What is more difficult to unravel is what makes great employers and employees in health IT.

Mach 7 Technologies (Booth 1276), a developer of clinical image management systems, is introducing Keystone Suite, an enterprise clinical imaging platform (ECIP), at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Las Vegas Feb. 20-24.

The American Cancer Society, in an effort to reduce future projected cancers from diagnostic imaging procedures, outlined some limitations and enhancements to current appropriateness criteria used for making decisions about imaging and also offered some CT exam recommendations for clinicians in an article published online Feb. 3 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Directions can serve as the ultimate guidance for end goals and aspirations. They can share insight and wit but they also can come up short. Weve all gotten poor directions. Traveling around the U.S. from city to city, I can recall a mental highlight reel of lackluster directions that still make me laugh out loud.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has reversed a lower court decision and held that installed MRI and PET/CT systems at Northeastern Pennsylvania Imaging Center should be treated as personal property for sales tax purposes.

The University of Oxford has installed Siemens Healthcare's Magnetom 7T whole-body MRI system, and plans to use the system for clinical neuroscience and cardiology research.

In a study to provide insight into the effects of telemonitoring on self-care and clinical management, and determine the features that enable successful heart failure (HF) telemonitoring, researchers concluded that the success of a telemonitoring system is highly dependent on its features and design.

The challenges in the adoption and use of EHRs led authors to pen a list of 10 rights and responsibilities of EHR users that could serve as the foundation on which to build an approach to healthcare in the electronic age. The article was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.