Technology futurists continue to predict the doomsday scenario of artificial intelligence rising to steal medical diagnosticians’ jobs right out from under them. 

 International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that for the fourth consecutive year in the US, Sectra PACS has been named ‘Best in KLAS’ for PACS (Large Hospital/IDN) category.

Assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, Scott Hayes, PhD, and his research team, were prompted to do research on cardiac fitness and brain health in older adults after serveral animal studies that showed physical activity positively impacting memory performance and brain regions critical for memory. 

Siemens Healthineers now have a new platform for computed tomography (CT) after many of its customers groups in radiology expressed their needs. 

The HHS department, collaborating with various private-sector partners, launched the Million Hearts initiative to fight heart attacks and strokes back in 2011. The Precision Medicine Initiative and BRAIN Initiative followed, both with stroke as a key target. Well and good, but the concerted stroke-busting efforts to date have mostly stressed genomics, novel biomarkers and innovative data. Where’s the imaging? 

Leading provider of integrated cloud solutions, Fusion, has signed a three-year, $350,000 cloud solutions contract with a multi-site radiology center based in the Midwest.

Imagine the electronic management system for imaging services fail, leaving radiologists with delayed bookings and examinations of images. Would a hospital's administration, medical staff and/or patients be ready for something like this?

An online magazine of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) is running an op-ed advising healthcare cybersecurity experts, along with the clinical departments whose data they protect, to implement a plan that covers “all smart, connected devices to safeguard patient privacy and data integrity.”