Agfa HealthCare announced today that William Corsten has been named the company's new regional President in North America.  A seasoned healthcare IT executive, Mr. Corsten will be responsible for leading Agfa HealthCare in the United States and Canada, reporting to Luc Thijs, President of Agfa HealthCare N.V.

In recognition of National Health IT Week, CMS has launched three new resources designed to ease participation in the Physician Quality Reporting System. The training modules are offered through the agency’s eHealth University, which provides education on all of CMS’s eHealth programs, including Meaningful Use, Administrative Simplification and ICD-10.

Englewood, Colo., Sept. 18, 2014—The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), today released a candidate profile summary for applicants interested in the position of MGMA president and CEO.

Doctors see the point of electronic health records, they just detest EHR systems as currently configured. The American Medical Association found as much last year, when its study with RAND Corp. confirmed widespread disgruntlement. Now AMA has issued a framework to fix the problems.

An historic alliance between Anthem Blue Cross and seven health systems has formed a new managed care plan aimed at employers in Southern California—and the nation’s second largest healthcare buyer has signed on as the first customer.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESSWIRE)--PenRad Technologies, Inc, the market leader in Mammography Information Systems (MIS), today announced its partnership with Clinithink to refine the process of clinical documentation for radiologists in real-time. PenRad is embedding Clinithink's CNLP (Clinical Natural Language Processing) platform into its MIS solution to increase productivity, accuracy and efficiency of the mammography reporting workflow for its existing install base.

ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- National Decision Support Company (NDSC) continues to expand its customer base with more than 60 healthcare provider organizations adopting ACR Select for use within their electronic health record (EHR) order entry workflow.

The rise of online patient portals is presenting radiologists with a golden opportunity and a formidable challenge. The opportunity: beat back market forces pushing the specialty toward commoditization. The challenge: master a new reporting language that remains sufficiently scientific for referring doctors yet becomes broadly accessible to medical laypersons—also known as “patients.”