Swift, optimum clinical decision-making depends on healthcare systems delivering the right information at the right time to the right caregiver. Model systems across the country are exploiting a host of technologies such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic medical records (EMRs), to ensure this better than anyone else while increasing quality, disseminating best practices and decreasing costs. To create comprehensive, intuitive systems, several of the country's most proactive health systems have formed extensive partnerships with health IT vendors to benefit from the vendor's connectivity and software system development knowledge base.

Tampa, Fla.-based Pegasus Imaging is now doing business as Accusoft Pegasus following its acquisition of Accusoft's imaging business in Northborough, Mass.

Agfa HealthCare has been selected by Western Maryland Health System (WMHS) to provide a cardiovascular imaging and information management system for the Cumberland, Md.-based organization's new healthcare facility, Western Maryland Regional Medical Center.

A complete, truly integrated cardiovascular information system (CVIS) does not exist today, based on the opinion of most healthcare providers, according to a new report by healthcare market research firm KLAS.

Clarifying legal rights of patient control over EHRs could be the key to making the best use of the huge amount of electronic medical information that the stimulus funding will create in the next few years, according to a commentary published in the March 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Aspyra has entered into a non-exclusive letter of agreement with South Plains Biomedical Services (SPBS), allowing SPBS to represent and resell Aspyra's laboratory information systems, RIS and PACS to new and existing customers.

Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz, Calif., part of the Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange (HIE), has implemented the Elysium virtual health record from Axolotl.

Digital image storage space requirements in Europe are growing at an exponential rate and require collaboration among image archive solution providers, PACS vendors and modality manufacturers in order to ensure interoperability, according to a new analysis from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.