November 9, 2011 – Carestream has received a clearance letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of its Carestream Vue Motion medical image viewer with mobile devices such as Apple iPads in the United States. The zero-footprint, Web-based viewer enables convenient, on-demand access to patient imaging data by clinicians anytime, anywhere. The viewer is already being used successfully with mobile devices in other countries worldwide.

November 9, 2011—GE Healthcare and University of Iowa Health Care announced they will collaborate on ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study brain disorders.

November 9, 2011 – Siemens Healthcare announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding equity of MobileMD Inc., of Yardley, Pa., a provider of health information exchange (HIE) solutions.

November 9, 2011 – Pediatric neuroscientists at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital are the first to use high-magnetic-field-strength magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to reveal tiny white matter injuries in the developing brain previously undetectable using standard MRI.

November 9, 2011 – A new study found that spinal bleeding is found often in young children who are victims of abusive trauma. The findings support performing complete spine imaging for children undergoing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for moderate or severe traumatic brain injury and suggest a pathway for distinguishing between abusive and accidental injury. The study is published online in the journal Radiology.

November 9, 2011 – EOS Imaging announced that EOS installation has been completed at New York University Langone Medical Center, a world-class patient-centered integrated academic medical center.  The clinical use of EOS is planned for early 2012. The full body, ultra-low dose 3-D orthopedic imaging system is already available in 10 North American medical centers to perform radiological examinations for the management and surgical planning of common orthopedic conditions such as scoliosis and joint disease.

November 9, 2011 – A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records (EHRs) issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners.

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