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.” 

Every week now seems to bring a flurry of think pieces on how artificial intelligence will change everything, including healthcare (and especially radiology). Few break any new developments or insights, but an article posted to The Conversation website Dec. 7 does an uncommonly fine job explaining how much harder it will be for AI to diagnose a disease than, say, recognize a face. 

Researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center used video goggles to distract children undergoing PET or CT scans to determine whether they created CT and PET artifacts. 

This year’s annual RSNA conference featured a session titled, "Hot Topics in Breast Imaging," which outlined a variety of sub-topics including over diagnosis, trends in breast density assessment over time and breast cancer screening.