Older women residing in the U.S territories are less likely to receive recommended or timely care for breast cancer compared with similar women residing in the continental United States, according to Yale researchers. Their findings were published in the March issue of Health Affairs.

Cerner announced a new collaboration with Salesforce, a global leader in customer relationship management (CRM). Cerner is extending its population health, clinical and administration portfolio with an integrated solution that combines Salesforce Health Cloud and Marketing Cloud with Cerner’s HealtheIntent, its big data platform. Combined with Cerner’s data, analytic and application platform, electronic health record (EHR) and intelligent solutions, the addition of Health Cloud and Marketing Cloud will support enhanced consumer and provider engagement.

At the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, Siemens Healthineers showcased new additions and updates to its Digital Ecosystem, an open and secured environment for healthcare stakeholders that houses a range of digital offerings from Siemens Healthineers and other partners based on shared healthcare data. Within the Siemens Healthineers cloud, different data sources can be integrated and processed, supporting a large variety of application types.

The Athena Breast Health Network has chosen Massachusetts-based Mammosphere to provide network management of medical images and associated clinical information required to conduct the WISDOM Study, a study involving more than 100,000 women that will help determine the optimal frequency and method of breast cancer screening.

Intelerad Medical Systems announced a partnership that will allow Apollo to resell Intelerad’s industry-leading medical imaging platform, IntelePACS.

VMware, Inc. highlighted several healthcare customers who are partnering with the company to transform the business and the practice of delivering patient care at HIMSS18. Additionally, VMware will be honored at the Best in KLAS Awards reception at HIMSS and will take home top honors in the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Mobile Device Management (MDM) software categories.

Philips and Hologic, Inc. announced a global partnership agreement to offer care professionals integrated solutions comprising diagnostic imaging modalities, advanced informatics and services for screening, diagnosis and treatment of women across the world. The collaboration combines Hologic's innovative mammography technologies and Philips' leading portfolio of ultrasound, MRI, CT and X-ray systems, advanced informatics and broad range of services, including maintenance, upgrade, training and operational performance management services.

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. announced nine of the initial healthcare systems across the United States that have selected its Aspire Cristalle mammography system with 3-D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) option to improve their diagnostic imaging capabilities and women’s health patient outcomes.

February 28, 2018 — Guerbet will present its new Contrast&Care application, as well as other contrast media offerings for computed tomography (CT), the cath lab and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), at the the 2018 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Feb. 28-March 4 in Vienna, Austria.

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