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Merge Healthcare and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have initiated a partnership to create a testing environment for the company’s new mobile healthcare technologies.
3M Health Information Systems is looking to give "physicians back their mobility" in 2010, David Owen, product line marketing manager, told CMIO at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week, where the company introduced its Mobile Dictation platform for smartphones, designed for healthcare providers.
Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, has released an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
The Institute for Medical Informatics at Oslo University Hospital in Norway has entered the iPhone app arena with the release of iOncolex, an application aimed at helping cancer patients by providing up-to-date information on diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care.
CoActiv Medical has launched a new Exam-PACS touch screen image view for the new Apple iPad large-screen digital viewing and communications device.
Written by Michael Bassett
 If the organizers of the 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America even considered the idea of putting together a conference that could skim along quietly underneath the radar, those thoughts ended Nov. 17 when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released its controversial revised mammography guidelines.
Written by Justine Cadet
CHICAGO—Radiologists can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location with the use of a handheld device or mobile phone equipped with OsiriX mobile software, based on study results presented Monday at the 2009 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The researchers are seeking to study this technology for other conditions that require an expedited diagnoses.
CoActiv (Booth 7544) is introducing its Exam-PACS support for Windows 7, as well as the Mac OS and iPhone through bi-directional integration with the OsiriX viewer.
An H1N1 flu iPhone application has been unveiled by the Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.
Calgary Scientific has expanded its partnership with Edge Health Solutions to include Web-access through its PureWeb platform.
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TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and decision support technologies, released updates to its Aquarius iNtuition at the 22nd European Congress of Radiology (ECR), March 4-8 in Vienna.
Health IT company Merge Healthcare has released eFilm Mobile, an extension of eFilm Workstation to provide access to worklists and studies from an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Written by Jeff Byers
ATLANTA--The prevalence of immediate information combined with connectivity created by technology and the clinical workforce expectation of better time management is a perfect storm for better mobile applications and delivery of medical care including telehealth, said William F. Bria, MD, CMIO for Shriners Hospitals for Children in Tampa, Fla., yesterday at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
Health IT company Voalté has announced that its point-of-care application, Voalté One, will be available on the Apple iPad platform.
Tuesday, January 19 2010
Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has become the West Coast’s maiden ship for health IT company Voalté's application Voalté One to be employed on iPhones receiving voice, alarms and text messages in one application to all of their point-of-care workers, including nurses.
Siemens Healthcare unveiled its new imaging software, syngo.via, for multimodality reading at the Radiological Society of North America annual conference in Chicago earlier this month.
InSite One, a provider of medical data archiving, storage and disaster recovery solutions, has expanded its contract with Merge Healthcare to provide a viewing solution for its InDex archiving services.
Hand-carried ultrasound developer SonoSite has expanded its SonoAccess iPhone application to accommodate musculoskeletal specialties.
An evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD) on an Apple iPhone has high sensitivity and negative predictive value among evaluable arteries, according to a proof-of-concept study presented at last week's Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Siemens Healthcare has released the latest version of Soarian Clinicals, an enterprise-wide healthcare information system.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.