MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 26, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vital Images, Inc., (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company, launched their personalized viewing platform to the global marketplace. The company’s personalized viewing platform will be one of several solutions featured at HIMSS (booth 732), February 29 – March 4, 2016 in Las Vegas, NV. While Vital continues to lead the world in advanced visualization and personalized medicine algorithms, 2016 heralds an increased focus on enterprise informatics and analytics. 

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McKesson announces Conserus Imaging Fellow™, an innovative solution that can help automate and simplify access to relevant clinical data by integrating information from the PACS with other data sources such as EHRs. The solution presents the relevant information for the specific clinical scenario at the point of care, within the imaging cockpit.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth Technologies, the leading provider of image-enabled Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions and Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), a regional HIE serving the state ofMaryland and the District of Columbia, announced they have successfully begun the implementation of eHealth Connect® Image Exchange across the state of Maryland. 

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics has published a report on some of the technologies shaping hospitals’ purchase plans in 2016.

A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has joined other calls for a delay in the Meaningful Use program. 

GE Healthcare announced that it will provide Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Vendor Neutral Archiving systems for Adventist Health, a health delivery system serving more than 70 communities in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. As part of the five-year agreement, Adventist Health will utilize one enterprise-wide system, using Centricity Solutions for Enterprise Imaging in 18 of its community hospitals.

“Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise” was the theme of the 2015 SIIM annual meeting, held May 28–30 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Because this ambitious endeavor entails providing EMR access to DICOM and non-DICOM images from every hospital department and satellite site in the healthcare enterprise, it was subject of a Town Hall meeting on the first day of the conference.

Digisonics, provider of award-winning CVIS solutions, has announced integration with GE Healthcare’s EchoPAC for advanced analysis of 3D/4D studies and strain rate.