Visage Imaging Inc. announced they are exhibiting the latest version of the Visage 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform at the American College of Radiology 2015 and Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine 2015 annual meeting. Visage 7 enables enterprise imaging with fast, thin-client, server-side processing technology, as well as simple mobile access to imaging results via Visage Ease.
vRad (Virtual Radiologic) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Mednax Inc. (NYSE: MD), provider of maternal-fetal, newborn, pediatric subspecialty and anesthesia physician services. The cash transaction is valued at $500 million and is expected to be accretive to Mednax’s earnings. Projected completion for the transaction is the second quarter of 2015.
The Barco Coronis Uniti display system was voted a Silver Winner for innovation at the 2015 Edison Awards, held April 23 at The Capitale in New York City. For 28 years, the Edison Awards have honored the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services.
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McKesson Specialty Health announced the availability of Clear Value Plus – Guideline Explorer to iPad users. The Guideline Explorer app is a mobile reference tool that gives users access to evidence-based cancer protocols based on patient attributes.
Carestream will demonstrate some of its advanced healthcare IT software solutions. Solutions will focus on delivering high-quality image access and supporting expedited data sharing among departmental systems, picture archiving and communication system (PACS) platforms and vendor-neutral archives.
Minnesota healthcare providers can now access a free online tool to help ensure patients get the right imaging exam for their condition, reduce unwarranted scans and lower costs.
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EOS Imaging announced a new online service offering that allows hospitals to outsource 3-D modeling from EOS stereo-radiographic images. The 3-D models will be generated at EOS’ Canadian subsidiary in Montreal.
Infinitt North America announced that it has opened an additional ultra-secure, government-grade center in Richmond, Virginia, to address the need created by its Infinitt Smart-NET cloud-picture archiving and communication system (PACS) solution.
ScImage announced that it has received validation for its PICOM365 enterprise picture archiving and communication system (PACS) within the framework of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system. The solution was validated as “Supported for HL7 Communication” with VHA’s VistA Imaging system.
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A new independent evaluation report from the Department of Health and Human Services showed that the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) payment model has generated substantial savings to Medicare in just two years. Additionally, the independent Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has certified that this patient care model is the first to meet the stringent criteria for expansion to a larger population of Medicare beneficiaries.
Scientists at Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel, have found that oral modified citrus pectin (MCP) enhances the anti-cancer and anti-metastatic effects of radiation therapy in the treatment of androgen-independent (AI) aggressive prostate cancer cells. Results were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2015.
Cancer Targeted Technology (CTT), announced that it was awarded a NIH two-year, $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. The funds will be used to develop a new agent that will help diagnose and monitor metastatic prostate cancer.
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Pressure to create alternative payment models has led to a significant increase in provider interest in partnering with Premier Inc. to develop and implement population health management strategies.
Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. said it completed its acquisition of TeraMedica Inc., a global healthcare informatics company and a provider of vendor neutral, enterprise solutions. The acquisition will allow Fujifilm to offer the market a leading vendor neutral archiving (VNA) technology.
At Nebraska Medicine, technology innovations bring with them opportunities to enhance patient care. The ability to integrate patient images with synchronized and simultaneous audio and video has Nebraska Medicine’s telehealth coordinator Kyle Hall looking at new ways to implement telehealth and mobile devices, such as iPads and Google Glass, at clinics and hospitals.
The buzz term “big data” has made a rapid entry onto the healthcare scene in the past couple years with promises of improving healthcare, but there are still many who are trying to figure out how exactly it will accomplish this. Efforts were made to explain big data and its application to healthcare at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meetings earlier this year.
Men with naturally high levels of estrogen may have a greater risk of developing breast cancer, according to research by an international collaboration including Cancer Research UK. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Broward Health became the first hospital system in South Florida to deploy a vendor neutral archive (VNA) solution to manage patient-centric medical images. The integrated delivery network (IDN) selected Mach7 Technologies’ Enterprise Imaging Platform as its VNA partner.
RedRick Technologies has released a new educational infographic that highlights the significant risks to radiologist health and diagnostic accuracy from repetitive stress injuries (RSI). This is part of their ongoing effort to educate radiology and healthcare design leaders about the benefits of applying ergonomic principles to all aspects of reading room design and development.
A new study finds men with prostate cancer that has spread to nearby lymph nodes can benefit from the addition of radiation therapy to treatments that block the effects of testosterone. This combination therapy would be most effective in patients at significant risk of dying from node-positive prostate cancer. The report from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society has been published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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