The spirit of collaboration to improve health with information technology came to Cleveland, Ohio, when the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon 2015 opened in January 2015. Almost 100 organizations and 555 engineers attended this annual testing event.

State legislatures in Georgia and Kentucky both introduced bills last week that would require physicians to notify women about dense breast tissue and its implications for detection of breast cancer.

Results of the NELSON lung cancer screening trial using low dose computed tomography (LDCT) can be used to predict the effect of population-based screening on the Dutch population. Researchers say the study results — which were published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology — can be used even though there were slight differences in baseline characteristics of participants in the control arm versus eligible non-participants.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is leading a Texas consortium of researchers to establish the country’s first National Center for Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy that could provide clinical care and research using heavy particles for innovative new cancer treatments.

Certain types of chemotherapy are associated with heart issues known as cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction. However, symptoms don’t appear until the issue is already advanced and potentially deadly. Experts at Baylor College of Medicine say early screening and monitoring using echocardiograms could be the key to helping cancer survivors stay heart-healthy and get their life back.

Agfa HealthCare announced the launch of Musica for Neonatal, built on its next generation Musica image processing software. Offering dedicated functions for neonatal imaging, the next generation Musica for Neonatal can play an important role in caregivers' efforts to control and reduce imaging radiation dose in these highly sensitive patients, while offering very high image quality and consistency.

Shimadzu Medical Systems announced the first United States installation of its Trinias C-12 crossover system at First Coast Heart & Vascular Center in Jacksonville, Fla. This first North American installation of the Trinias angiographic system was completed by Shimadzu dealer/partner CMS Imaging of North Charleston, SC and began operation at the medical center in late January.