Participating dementia specialists may now enroll patients in the Imaging Dementia—Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study at IDEAS-Study.org. Primary care and other doctors not taking part in the IDEAS Study are encouraged to refer eligible patients to participating physicians.

Vital Images Inc. launched their personalized viewing platform to the global marketplace, and it will be one of several solutions featured at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition, Feb. 29 – March 4 in Las Vegas.

IBM Watson Health announced plans Feb. 18 to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a leading provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights, for $2.6 billion. Truven will bring more than 8,500 clients, including U.S. federal and state government agencies, employers, health plans, hospitals, clinicians and life sciences companies, to the IBM Watson Health portfolio.

eHealth Technologies and Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), a regional health information exchange (HIE) serving the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia, have successfully begun the implementation of eHealth Connect Image Exchange across the state of Maryland.

March 2, 2016 — GE Healthcare announced two large systems integrators (SIs) and seven leading-edge independent software vendors (ISVs) are planning to move their digital solutions to the new GE Health Cloud. Designed exclusively for the healthcare industry and resting on the shoulders of GE’s Predix platform, the GE Health Cloud will ultimately connect more than 2 million imaging machines worldwide, including 500,000 GE Healthcare devices.

Philips announced the introduction of a secure data recovery service, built in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), that rapidly captures and backs up an entire healthcare organization's data repository in the cloud.

At the 54th Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Siemens Healthcare will demonstrate customized and scalable IT solutions that optimize workflows and increase clinical efficiency across the enterprise. The company is featuring three new solutions this year: teamplay, sense and syngo.share.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) may soon be routine in radiology. It won’t take the shape of robots that clank and whir. Or animated heads of the Max Headroom variety. Or disembodied voices à la HAL 9000. 
GE, SenoClaire, mammography, 3-D breast imaging, tomosynthesis, dense breast tissue

The digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) market continues to evolve, with reportedly no less than six new systems prepping to hit the market in the near future. At the 2015 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, Liane Philpotts, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and chief of breast imaging at Yale University, discussed how tomosynthesis is revolutionizing breast imaging. 
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In the midst of increased mergers and industry acquisitions, healthcare leadership is becoming more cognizant of the need to have enterprise imaging strategies in place that answer a long-standing question in medical imaging: “How will we get our providers the images and data they need when and where they need it most?” 
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