IT and medical technology company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a six-year contract with the large Swedish healthcare provider Region Skåne. The contract includes development, maintenance and support for the region-wide Sectra IT solution, which is used in radiology, clinical physiology, nuclear medicine and mammography to manage and communicate patient information. The order value amounts to SEK 55.8 Million (approx. EUR 6.2 M).

Learn how Park Nicollet Health Services, a leading integrated care system in suburban Minneapolis, has expanded the use of state-of-art advanced visualization across their healthcare enterprise & allowing radiologists and cardiologists to view, read and report on a universal viewer that seamlessly integrates with PACS.

With heightened interest and incentives for EMR and image and information sharing as part of a health information exchange--healthcare executives are focusing on coordinating their financial, clinical and technical resources on building and integrating a healthcare image and information archive that leverages their current IT investments while providing the foundation for imaging exchange workflow and EMR integration.

Medical images viewed on smartphones can be effectively used to remotely evaluate stroke patients through telemedicine, according to a study published online ahead of print in Stroke.

Cory Hall has joined healthcare web-service provider Reach Call as executive vice president (VP) of medical informatics.

Cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) are providing the means to integrate the business of cardiology with the practice of cardiology at the point of care—with great results for managers.

AcerMed, an ambulatory EMR provider in Irvine, California, has gone out of business, and its president, Richard Younis, blames a lawsuit with MedInformatix for the company's demise.

With new and improved CVIS, electronic reporting and connectivity is now readily available to cardiology departments.