March 21, 2018 — ViewRay Inc. recently announced that the company received Shonin approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) to market the MRIdian Linac System featuring linear accelerator (Linac) delivery. The MRIdian cobalt system received Shonin approval in August 2016.  

Key processes in the body are controlled by the concentration of calcium in and around cells. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed the first sensor molecule that is able to visualize calcium in living animals with the help of a radiation-free imaging technique known as optoacoustics. The method does not require the cells to be genetically modified and involves no radiation exposure.

Cloud-based medical image management and teleradiology company NucleusHealth recently announced the commercial licensing of its Platform-as-a-Service (Nucleus PaaS) that was showcased within the Microsoft booth at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, March 5-9 in Las Vegas. Nucleus PaaS provides integration partners, across every facet of the healthcare industry, with medical imaging data at the speed and scalability of next-generation cloud technology, allowing third parties to deliver medical images through their own tools and specialty workflows.

March 20, 2018 – A first of its kind study shows typical interruptions experienced by on-call radiologists do not reduce diagnostic accuracy but do change what they look at and increase the amount of time spent on a case.

Nine months after the implementation of Exa PACS (picture archiving and communication system) from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based teleradiology provider and one of the state’s largest radiology imaging suppliers, has significantly increased volume and productivity. According to Radiology Imaging Solutions, this has generated a significant return on its healthcare information technology (IT) investment. The company has doubled the number of imaging sites its radiologists are providing reading services for. By implementing Exa’s Voice Recognition in place of traditional transcriptionists, their productivity has also increased by 400 percent. Radiologists are reading 2.5 times the number of studies with no corresponding increase in working hours and decreasing report turnaround times (TATs) by over 50 percent.

Carestream Health demonstrated advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and imaging analytics software tools designed to enhance both the quality and speed of diagnosis and reporting for radiology imaging exams at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2018 tradeshow, March 5-9 in Las Vegas.

March 19, 2018 — Artificial intelligence (AI) platform provider EnvoyAI recently announced a new partnership with 16 Bit, the winner of the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) Bone Age Algorithm Challenge. EnvoyAI’s platform launched in November 2017 with 14 partners and 35 algorithms.

March 19, 2018 — Philips recently announced the launch of HealthSuite Insights, including the Insights Marketplace, to support the advancing adoption of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in key healthcare domains.

March 15, 2018 – CereMetrix, a subsidiary of CereHealth Corp., has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its neuroimaging analytics and quantification platform CereMetrix Silver. Providers will now have access to objective neuroimaging that detects, quantifies and analyzes brain function down to the voxel level.

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