While healthcare learns how to improve its response to cybersecurity threats, the number and ferocity of incidents continue to increase. Health Imaging spoke with Zack Hornberger, recently tabbed as director of cybersecurity and imaging informatics for Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), to discuss what medical imaging professionals can do to best prepare for handling cybersecurity breaches.

Cybersecurity researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheba, Israel, warn that medical imaging devices are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-threats and are in need of ongoing security updates, according to a recent article by The Times of Israel.

What’s more impressive than highly sophisticated imaging techniques creating digital pictures of the inner body? Allowing those medical images to be displayed directly on a patient’s body as they move.

Congress voted to reopen the government Monday, Jan. 22, after a weekend-long shutdown, with a short-term spending bill effective through Feb. 8. As a part of this deal, the nationwide medical device tax that took effect Jan. 1, 2018 will now be delayed for another two years.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing the way radiologists do their jobs. And while much of the action is in mundane task relief, exciting opportunities are emerging for the technology to push radiology’s role in personalized medicine beyond what it could accomplish with human eyes alone.

Ochsner Health System and Vital Images announced today a partnership to deploy an enterprise imaging solution that will support Ochsner and its vision of a multidisciplinary, multifunctional medical image-management system. 

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today announced that Zack Hornberger has joined the organization as Director of Cybersecurity & Imaging Informatics.

According to a Jan. 4 release from the Department of Defense, McKesson Technologies has been awarded a $400 million contract for digital imaging network PACS products and maintenance.