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This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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NDSsi acquires wireless HD technology, plans new product line

NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) of San Jose, Calif., has acquired a wireless video technology that extends its current imaging capabilities in the operating room.

Microsoft inks deal with Sentillon for Amalga enhancements

Sentillion has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft, in which Sentillion will supply its single sign-on and context-management technology to become a featured module of Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System 2009, an enterprise data aggregation platform.

McKesson names Blake as VP for IT unit

McKesson has promoted Patrick Blake to executive vice president and group president of McKesson Technology Solutions, effective June 16.

UltraRAD releases next-generation DICOM router

Medical image and information management technology developer UltraRAD of West Berlin, N.J., has released the latest iteration of its DICOM router, UltraGateway 3.03.

Sorna debuts EMR DICOM viewer

Sorna has released Reviewer EMR, software that provides access to diagnostic images from a patient's EMR.

CDW Healthcare offers self-assessment IT tool

CDW Healthcare has released its IT Checkup Self-Assessment Tool, a Web-based program that enables hospital IT managers to evaluate and compare their clinical application and IT infrastructure investments to U.S. averages.

Siemens updates Soarian Clinicals

Siemens Healthcare has released the latest version of Soarian Clinicals, an enterprise-wide healthcare information system.

SIIM: Simple search, indexing tools can substitute for NLP

Although not a replacement for a sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) application, there are simple search and indexing tools that can be used by faculty to identify cases for research and education purposes, according to a presentation at the 2009 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference this week in Charlotte, N.C.

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