The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Visage Imaging’s Visage Ease Pro, a native iOS application that allows for mobile diagnostic interpretation of most modalities, excluding mammography.

Patient-centered care comes in many different flavors. It includes anything from adjusting processes to get patients in and out of their imaging appointment in a timely manner, to upgrading image sharing technologies to make sure past studies don’t need to be repeated, to focusing on dose reduction.

Minnesota health care providers can now access a free online tool to help ensure patients get the right imaging exam for their condition, reduce unwarranted scans and lower costs.

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. has announced the acquisition of TeraMedica, the healthcare informatics company and vendor neutral archive (VNA) provider based in Wauwatosa, Wis.

XIFIN, Inc., the healthcare cloud computing company revolutionizing the business of healthcare diagnostics from patient to payment, today announced the acquisition of VisualShare, a Salt Lake City-based medical informatics company specializing in diagnostic image management.

Has your practice recently changed processes to better accommodate patients? Is a radiology department you work with upgrading their technology to get imaging results out faster? If so, tell us and these projects could be featured in an upcoming article here at Health Imaging.

A meta-analysis of studies focused on the implementation of clinical decision support (CDS) for imaging found moderate evidence that integrating such tools with the EHR can improve appropriate imaging use and yield a small decrease in test ordering, but more research must be done, particularly on possible harms.

Viztek, the leading provider of complete digital software and hardware diagnostic imaging solutions, will introduce its latest breast imaging innovation to clinicians at the SBI/ACR Breast Imaging Symposium 2015, April 25-28 in Orlando, Fl.