March 31, 2017 — A recent analysis of newly added 2014 data to the National Cancer Institute SEER database by R. Edward Hendrick, Ph.D., shows that the breast cancer death rate has now fallen 38 percent since 1990. This downward trend follows the increased use of mammography screening beginning in the mid-1980s. This decline amounts to 274,765 breast cancer deaths averted since 1990 — including 22,054 in 2014 alone.  

The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) and Bayer announced an alliance to establish the United States' first-ever statewide radiation dose management repository for patients undergoing certain radiological procedures. The repository will use Bayer’s Radimetrics, a radiation and contrast dose management and analytics tool which provides clinicians with data needed for them to help ensure their patients receive the lowest radiation dosage necessary. The goal is for clinicians to be able to share the data in order to benchmark radiation exposure.

Intelerad Medical Systems recenlty announced that Australia’s Primary Health Care Limited (Primary) has selected Intelerad’s InteleOne XE as the enterprise imaging platform for its diagnostic imaging division, Healthcare Imaging Services (HIS). Together with the Nuance PowerScribe 360 Reporting platform, InteleOne XE will provide a consolidated archive and unified workflow, allowing the nationwide organization’s 141 sites to operate as a single entity.

Visage Imaging Inc. announced that Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic health system in the United States, completed its enterprise-wide implementation of the Visage 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform in record time. Visage 7 enables enterprise imaging with fast, thin-client, server-side processing technology, as well as simple diagnostic mobile access via Visage Ease Pro.