Heading up the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center, Gorkem Sevinc, MSE, CIIP, focuses the bulk of his attention on partnering with clinical and research personnel within Hopkins Medicine to collaboratively build innovative Health IT tools. Software development, IT infrastructure, workflow and collaboration tools are all part of his purview.

International medical imaging IT company Sectra (STO:SECTB) announces that University Hospitals (UH), based in Cleveland in the US, has entered into a multi-year contract to implement its vendor neutral archive (VNA) solution for the handling of patient imaging throughout the University Hospitals system.

Danish medical device company Brainreader has announced FDA approval for its Neuroreader MR software designed to quickly detect changes in a patient’s brain volume brought on by neurodegenerative diseases or traumatic brain injuries.

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.

Still best known as a massive mover of pharmaceuticals, McKesson has become one of the largest health-tech vendors as well—and one of the most formidable American companies in any industry. 

Join us for this year's annual ATA Fall Forum, Sept. 16-18, in Washington, D.C. The forum will focus on specific telemedicine topics and allow attendees to network and make lasting professional connections.

Back in the heyday of the space program, in the era of Neil Armstrong and Apollo, there were tears and cheers with each milestone reached, and none was felt or heralded more widely than Armstrong’s first step on the dusty orb that is our moon.

Give it up, buy in and figure it out. In short, that was the message from Kevin McEnery, MD, to his fellow informaticists at the recent meeting of the SIIM, Inner Harbor, Maryland.