March 14, 2016 — Writing in the March 14 online issue of Nature Materials, researchers at University of California, San ...
Dictum Health Inc. unveiled its Virtual Exam Room (VER), the centerpiece of its cloud-based, cybersecure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth system.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC HIT) announced a new initiative to improve interoperability between Medicaid providers.
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
As the healthcare industry evolves from a volume- to a value-based payment system, clinical information technology (IT) executives are expected to play an increasingly significant role in ensuring health IT is appropriately leveraged to positively impact care outcomes. Evidence from the 2016 HIMSS Leadership Survey, released at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition in Las Vegas, clearly support these expectations.
The 2016 HIMSS Connected Health Survey paints an optimistic picture surrounding the emerging trend of connectivity within the healthcare ecosystem. With more than 50 percent of respondents indicating their hospital currently uses three or more connected health technologies, the high adoption rates (and other supportive statistics in the report) underscore the growing importance these technologies play in the hospital setting.
SPONSORED CONTENT — Fujifilm’s latest CT technology brings exceptional image quality to a compact and user- and patient ...
Siemens Healthcare announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared three brand-new system models in the company’s Cios family of mobile C-arms – Cios Fusion, Cios Connect and Cios Select. These new systems join a newly upgraded version of Siemens’ established, ultra-premium Cios Alpha mobile C-arm.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
Xifin Inc. announced that two leading children’s hospitals and affiliated clinics have successfully implemented Xifin ProNet to facilitate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach for the prevention, investigation and treatment of child abuse and neglect for pediatric patients.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center joins the growing family of organizations leveraging Mach7 Enterprise Imaging Platform to manage vendor neutral archiving (VNA), communication, exchange and sharing of medical imaging data.
March 11, 2016 — New scanning technology which will give a much clearer picture of lung disease has taken a major step ...
SPONSORED CONTENT — Fujifilm’s latest CT technology brings exceptional image quality to a compact and user- and patient ...
Radiology Protocols announced that its platform will be added to the GE Health Cloud suite of applications when the Cloud goes live later this year.
Examples of technologies on the market and a discussion of what to look for in PACS and CVIS workflow efficiencies with ...
Sectra AB announced that an interface has been created between its digital pathology solution and PALGA U-DPS, a pathology laboratory application within the nationwide network and registry of histopathology and cytopathology in the Netherlands. This enables pathologists to work completely digitally when performing primary diagnostics of histology slides. The interface was created as part of a strong cooperation with Deutsche Telekom Healthcare Solutions (Netherlands).
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
According to the latest research study released by Technavio, the global medical imaging market is expected to reach close to $37 billion in revenue by 2020.
Paxeramed Corp. has announced the release of version 2.0 of its patient engagement app CarePassport. The company highlighted the major update at the 2016 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition, Feb. 29–March 3 in Las Vegas.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
Wanda Inc., in partnership with Dignity Health, announced the launch of the OncoVerse virtual care collaboration platform. OncoVerse is a digital health platform designed to enable the patient's care team to collaborate in real time and allow clinicians across all disciplines to work together to determine the most effective treatment plan for cancer patients.
On Feb. 19-20, Brainlab sponsored the Sixth International Conference of the Novalis Circle in Munich, Germany, bringing together international experts in radiation oncology and neurosurgery.
New research suggests a high coronary artery calcium score puts people at greater risk not only for heart and vascular disease but also for cancer, chronic kidney disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The research was part of a 10-year follow-up study of more than 6,000 people who underwent heart computed tomography (CT) scans.
March 9, 2016 — Hitachi Medical Corp. and Redlen Technologies Inc., a Canadian technology company, announced an ...
The use of diabetes treatment, whether by diet or pills such as metformin, decreases mammographic density (MD), one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer, whereas taking insulin appears to increase it. These findings were part of a presentation at the 10th European Breast Cancer Conference.
March 9, 2016 — Radiotherapy to the whole breast is standard treatment after breast-conserving surgery for women with ...