Morning Headlines 10/14/13

Cirdan Ultra Acquires US GE Healthcare Subsidiary

GE’s Centricity Lab product is acquired by Lisburn, UK-based Cirdan Ultra. Cirdan will take over all assets and responsibility for service and support for current GE lab customers.

Which Chicago corporate boards deliver for shareholders?

The board of Merge Healthcare is named least-competent Chicago-area board of directors by Crain’s Chicago Business.

Boston Children’s Hospital Innovation Chief Talks Hurdles

Boston Children’s Hospital CIO Naomi Fried is profiled in an InformationWeek interview. She discusses a number of in-house integration projects she oversaw to help her clinicians optimize their EHR, bed management system, and other clinical applications.

eClinicalWorks Kicks off Sold Out 2013 National Users Conference

eClinicalWorks is holding its national conference this weekend in San Antonio, running through Monday.