Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas recently provided ultrasound systems for The American Academy for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s (AAPM&R) course “Next Step Interventional Ultrasound: Hands-On PM&R Applications. The course is one component of the AAPM&R STEP Ultrasound Certificate Program, which is a multi-tiered training program that teaches and assesses musculoskeletal (MSK) and neurologic ultrasound skills using a progressive, competency-based curriculum.

Eli Lilly and Co. and Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc. announced a Phase 3 study of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent flortaucipir F-18 met its two primary endpoints, defined as predicting brain tau pathology and predicting Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

Novarad Healthcare Enterprise Imaging has taken the highest rated spot on Gartner’s Peer Insights technology review platform, outranking every other competitor in the vendor-neutral archive (VNA) market category.

Agfa HealthCare and Greenville Health System (GHS), South Carolina, announced the successful implementation of a comprehensive enterprise imaging system. The implementation will facilitate greater efficiencies in clinical operations, improve clinical confidence, and enable cost reduction through convergence of systems and timely access to medical images and diagnostic tools.

A new report from data and analytics company GlobalData suggests that Amazon is poised to make huge strides in healthcare as the Internet retail giant prepares to enter a new market. The report highlights a business model that facilitates easier connectivity between providers and patients, a powerful online platform and its artificial intelligence (AI) interface, Alexa.

August 30, 2018 — Results from a clinical trial of more than 250 participants with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) ...

A newly developed rapid imaging protocol quickly and cheaply diagnosed heart ailments in patients in Peru, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association.

iSchemaView announced that more than 575 stroke centers in 22 countries have selected the RAPID advanced imaging platform for cerebrovascular imaging, with 520 currently installed. RAPID technology assists physicians in the analysis of brain images using automated tools for CT ASPECTS, computed tomography (CT) angiography, CT perfusion, magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion and perfusion for more than 85,000 stroke cases per year. RAPID is also currently deployed in six multi-center clinical trials globally.

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has launched its second annual machine learning challenge. The RSNA Pneumonia Detection challenge invites teams to develop algorithms to identify and localize pneumonia in chest X-rays.