The U.S. Department of Defense has given Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS the green light to operate on the department’s networks, granting the company an Authority to Operate (ATO) and making it the first medical-imaging vendor to obtain such clearance since DoD switched to its Risk Management Framework (RMF), according to a press release sent by Fujifilm Medical Systems USA.

Toronto, Ontario—June 15, 2017—RamSoft is happy to announce their distribution partnership with KenQuest Medical.

In the land down under, deep-learning algorithms have analyzed cross-sectional chest CT scans from 48 patients and predicted, with impressive accuracy, who among them would die within five years.

A European AI startup that has so far focused on deep-learning detection of lung cancers on imaging has raised around $2.5 million (2.25 million euros) in seed-round funding to refine its product and bring it to market.

STAMFORD, Conn.—FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., will present its comprehensive Synapse Enterprise Imaging portfolio at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), a conference that focuses on bridging the transformation to a new era in medicine through enterprise imaging technology. 

Women with an interest in medical imaging informatics have a new online resource center thanks to RADxx, the women’s advancement initiative kicked off at last year’s RSNA by Geraldine McGinty, MD, and Mini Peiris of the healthcare software company Ambra Health. 

Tracking the fate of 200 unsolicited manuscripts rejected in one calendar year by the American Journal of Roentgenology, a researcher has found that the majority—117 manuscripts, close to 60 percent—eventually found a home in other scientific journals, according to an analysis running in the June edition of that very journal. 

The American College of Radiology is working with the nonprofit research organization Cohen Veterans Bioscience to create a reference library for neuroradiologists, neurologists, emergency docs and all others diagnosing, treating or researching mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).