Choosing the right medical technology is a major undertaking for hospitals and health systems. In the short clip below, the ECRI Institute suggests several questions that must be asked when considering new technology.

Accusoft, the leading provider of document, content and imaging solutions, today announces Prizm Cloud, a service that enables online content creators – such as web developers, bloggers, and social media authors – to easily display documents from within their content in a convenient, attractive document viewer.

J.M. Winston Radiology Associates, Inc.,  a 6-physician radiology practice based in Reading, Pa., has partnered with McKesson Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) to help improve cash flow and bolster regulatory compliance.

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that OnQ Research Pty Ltd, a South African based full-service Clinical Research Organization (CRO), has selected Merge's eClinical OS™ solution for electronic data capture (EDC) to expand their in-house data management service offering.

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), a health IT nonprofit in the Empire State, has organized the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, asking developers to build innovative and user-friendly portals for patient information access.

Agfa HealthCare announces that it will establish a new subsidiary in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Called Agfa HealthCare Saudi Arabia Company Ltd., this legal entity will be formally launched at a press conference to be held on May 13 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Physicians at Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Mass.) are enthusiastic about gaining instant access to patient imaging studies via the Web on devices such as the iPad using the CARESTREAM Vue Motion viewer.

As many GE Healthcare IT customers converge on the nation’s capital for the company’s largest user group meeting of the year, the Company is announcing several new initiatives intended to continue the focus on customers, year-round.