The American Medical Association has joined with Google to kick off a contest to collect ideas of novel approaches to improving mobile health technology, including wearables and smartphone apps, to improve the flow of information between patients and physicians. The goal is to streamline technology to improve management of chronic diseases.
With digital radiology, PACS and RIS in use for 15 years or more at most US hospitals, a disparate system architecture is now the reality for most departments. Multiple PACS and mini-PACS populate the environment, resulting in inefficiencies, increased operating costs, and reduced throughput for departments.
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AstraZeneca reported an uptick in sales for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and year end as well as a doubling in its cost-cutting planwhich means the elimination of approximately 15,000 jobs by 2013.
Despite the current economic downturn, revenues for the global ultrasound market will continue to experience growth and exceed $6 billion by 2012, according to a report from InMedica, a division of IMS Research.
SonoSite, a provider of hand-carried ultrasound systems, has released its new SonoGT Global Target technology, which is now available on SonoSites mountable S Series ultrasound tools.
With the demand for portable and PC-based ultrasound units experiencing exponential growth, the Eastern European could reach $370.9 million in 2014, according to a report from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
GE Healthcare's vascular ultrasound group and Medipattern have signed a definitive collaboration agreement to create ultrasound-based Vascular Imaging Quantification tools (Vascular iQ).
Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) has granted Toshiba Medical Systems a nonexclusive license to patents owned by RCT that broadly cover ultrasound tissue harmonic imaging (THI).
Boston Scientific and Medtronic have settled two lawsuits and signed an agreement to stand down in three others, which will stop all current litigation between the two companies in the fields of interventional cardiology and endovascular repair.
U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.
When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.
A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.
