The value companies place on collaboration was palpable on the floor of the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS19), as company executives discussed — and their staffs demonstrated — existing and works-in-progress.

IBM Watson Health announced plans to make a 10-year, $50 million investment in research collaborations with two separate academic centers - Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center - to advance the science of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to major public health issues.

Smart technology company Synopsys recently announced the release of the Synopsys Simpleware ScanIP Medical edition for 3-D printing and visualization. This new version of Simpleware ScanIP comes with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance, and CE and ISO 13485:2016 certification as a medical device.

Simpleware ScanIP Medical

Medical imaging and visualization company Medivis officially unveiled SurgicalAR, its augmented reality (AR) technology platform for surgical applications, at the 2019 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting, Feb. 11-15 in Orlando, Fla.

Breast imaging analytics company Densitas Inc. announced a new collaboration partnership with TeleMammography Specialists of Decatur, Ga. TeleMammography Specialists will be the first U.S. beta user for the new densitasquality solution from Densitas, which will be used to improve the communications and information sharing needed to meet EQUIP (Enhancing Quality Using the Inspection Program) guidelines. TeleMammography Specialists will also implement the recently released densitasdensity automated breast density assessment software.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a new rule to support seamless and secure access, exchange and use of electronic health information (EHI).

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