Screening

Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.

Cerner, SenSage collaborate on security

Cerner Corp. and SenSage Inc. have released the new P2Sentinel Enterprise, a Cerner system that utilizes the SenSage family of enterprise security analytics software for aggregating, monitoring and investigating security events.

CoActiv adds pediatric assessment capability to EXAM-PACS

CoActiv Medical this week announced the integration of EXAM-PACS with the latest version of OrthoView 3.0, which adds a Pediatric Assessment Module (PAM), an all-inclusive set of tools and wizards that allow the accurate assessment of congenital deformiti

Philips looks to boost healthcare IT presence with Stentor acquisition

Philips Medical Systems this week announced it is stepping up its healthcare IT capabilities and particularly its PACS offerings with the proposed acquisition by its parent, Royal Philips Electronics, of web-based PACS provider Stentor, Inc.

Philips to acquire Stentor

Royal Philips Electronics and Stentor, Inc. this morning announced that Philips will acquire web-based PACS provider Stentor, the companies said in a joint release.

Redefining Open MRI

Open MRI systems have gained speed and clinical utility, and most importantly, image quality is earning clinical confidence.

EMC offers enhancements to Centera

EMC Corporation has announced software enhancements to its EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) systems.

Amplification: Codonics shows Horizon, new entry-level color printer

Codonics, a provider of nuclear medicine imagers, showcased the Horizon medical imager as well as the company's newly released entry-level EP-1000 color printer at the 52nd Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) annual meeting in Toronto, Canada, June 18-22.

The Detroit Institute for Children picks IT outsourcing services provider

CareTech Solutions, an information technology (IT) and Health Information Management (HIM) outsourcing provider, this week announced it has inked a comprehensive IT outsourcing agreement with The Detroit Institute for Children (The DIC).

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.