The use of anytime-anywhere communication tools is growing by leaps and bounds. However, when it comes to communication with patients, physicians appear to be a couple of steps behind, according to a report released earlier this week. Only 6.7 percent of office-based physicians routinely emailed patients in 2008, according to the study, which was conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).

The FDA has cleared Bartron Medical Imagings MED-SEG system, a PACS software device that receives medical images and data from various imaging sources, including CT, MRI, ultrasound, CR and DR devices, as well as secondary capture devices (scanners or imaging gateways).

Cerner and MedAssets have signed a reseller agreement that increases the interoperability of Cerners revenue cycle offerings and offer its clients access to more revenue capture and administrative modules.

EasyMedMobile has developed and released its iPhone application to provide health information management services to smart phone users.

Fonar has reported dropping into net losses in its financial results for the 2010 fiscal year, which ended June 30.

Neuroradiologists using functional MRI (fMRI) observed significant differences in interhemispheric brain connectivity between patients with autism and a control group, according to a study published online Oct. 15 in Cerebral Cortex.

Siemens Healthcare will install its Magnetom Avanto 1.5T MRI as an upgrade to the imaging department of Manchester, England-based Royal Oldham Hospital, part of Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., has selected Merge Healthcare to provide perioperative applications.