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.

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Understanding How Big Data Will Change Healthcare

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.

Women with luminal A subtype breast cancer, particularly those over 60, may not need radiation treatment if they are already taking hormone therapy, according to a new study from the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. The research is published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Sage Bionetworks, together with collaborators in the research community, announced the launch of a patient-centered, iPhone app-based study of the causes of symptom variations in the breast cancer community

Share the Journey: Mind, Body, and Wellness after Breast Cancer

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