Memorial Hermann Health System and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced a new partnership to provide a new level of specialized breast screening at a network of community breast care centers in the greater Houston area.

Hospitals and healthcare systems in need of a cost-effective, HIPAA-compliant solution for long-term archiving of healthcare data now have an alternative to on-site redundant archiving. ClearDATA Networks Inc. announced its new cloud-based Archive as a Service solution. It is the first offering of its kind created specifically to meet requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for archiving of healthcare data that does not need to be accessed immediately or regularly.  

Oxford Instruments Healthcare, a division of Oxford Instruments that specializes in providing after-market GE computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, announced that it has recently received approval from the Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) to import and market its refurbished GE CT equipment and parts to South Korea.

 

ClearDATA Networks Inc. announced that it has successfully achieved Common Security Framework (CSF) Certified status from the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). 

Randomized trials from the 1970s and 80s suggested that mammography screening prevents deaths from breast cancer. But the methods used by some of these studies have been criticized, and this has raised doubts about the validity of the findings. Advances in technology and treatment have also led to questions about the reliability of older trials to estimate the benefits and harms of modern day screening.

Imris Inc. announced that a recently published article in the journal Neurosurgery is the highest-level clinical evidence to show that the use of Visius intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) in brain tumor surgery results in complete tumor removal in more patients with glioma tumors.

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