After announcing the planned expansion of its Population Health Management (PHM) offerings through the acquisition of San Francisco-based company, Medicalis Corporation, Siemens Healthineers confirmed that the official closing of the deal occurred June 1, 2017. 

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (West Herts) located in the South East of the UK and Carestream have signed and exchanged contracts to replace the Trust’s existing PACS with a  Carestream Vue PACS and Vue VNA. The new five-year contract will be provided as a Managed Service, including software, services, workstation and server hardware.

RAD Women (#RADxx), a networking group for the advancement of women in imaging informatics, recently announced a new online resource center for current and prospective members.

June 1, 2017 — QUBYX Software Technologies Inc. received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its DICOM calibration tool and a Dell UP3017 monitor. The monitor is used for viewing medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), X-ray, ultrasound and others, as well as for review and diagnostics by trained medical practitioners.

An industry expert from Vital Images, Inc. (Vital) is participating in a discussion with the healthcare community on specialized workflow and efficiency challenges at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2017 annual meeting, June 1-3 in Pittsburgh.

Siemens Healthineers and the Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS announced the formation of a new research alliance to develop decision support systems for physicians based on deep machine learning. The partners will discuss their joint efforts at the German Radiology Congress, May 24-27 in Leipzig, Germany.

Carestream Health has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient Inc. for its Carestream OnSight 3-D Extremity System. Vizient is among the largest member-driven healthcare performance improvement companies in the country.

Scientists from the Netherlands and Russia designed and tested a new metasurface-based technology for enhancing the local sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners on humans for the first time. The metasurface consists of thin resonant strips arranged periodically. Placed under a patient's head, it provided much higher signals from the local brain region.

MIM Software Inc. recently announced significant updates to its MIM Encore solution for viewing nuclear medicine images. The vendor-neutral application offers viewing of positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT, PET/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and general nuclear medicine images. Physicians and technologists can streamline the nuclear medicine workflow by viewing and processing images in tandem using this single-platform solution.

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