Envision Diagnostic Center (Novi, Mich.) has implemented Exa PACS (picture archiving and communication system) from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. to facilitate the sharing of multispecialty medical images and reports while enabling the use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE).

In a bid to make the world's first while-you-wait test for breast cancer, European scientists are developing a comfortable hemispherical bowl lined with laser sources and ultrasound detectors with the potential to reduce the stages in spotting the disease into a single appointment.

June 27, 2017 — Toshiba Medical, a Canon Group company, introduced its newest magnetic resonance (MR) system, the Vantage Titan/Zen Edition 1.5T. The Zen Edition prioritizes intelligent work­flow and patient comfort, providing a complete clinical offering to help clinicians make accurate diagnoses.

The new system features several patient comfort tools, workflow enhancements and new clinical applications:

Vantage Titan Zen Edition 1.5T

June 27, 2017 — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and fellow Republicans announced Tuesday that a final vote on the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the upper chamber's version of Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal-and-replace legislation, will be delayed until after the July 4 recess.

Unfors RaySafe recently introduced the RaySafe Pro-Slit Phantom and the RaySafe Pro-Stand.

RaySafe Pro-Slit Phantom

McKesson Provider Technologies changed its name to Change Healthcare in July 2017. The company was spun off from McKesson. 

Click here to go to the Change Healthcare buyers guide listing and access content related to the company.

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced development of a technology to retrieve similar disease cases from a computed tomography (CT) database of previously taken images. The technology, jointly developed with Fujitsu R&D Center Co. Ltd., works by retrieving similar cases of abnormal shadows expanding in a three-dimensional manner.

June 26, 2017 — Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. announced that its Synapse PACS (picture archiving and communication system) line has been granted Authority to Operate (ATO) on networks in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The announcement makes Fujifilm the first vendor with a networked medical system to attain a Risk Management Framework (RFM)-based ATO.

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