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    AMA, Google announce interoperability, innovation challenge

    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.

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    How Interoperable Technology Can Enhance the Efficiency of Radiology & IT

    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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    Smart IT Strategies for Imaging Growth & Quality Outcomes

    As healthcare reform and big data in medical imaging converge, strategies to facilitate image exchange, mobile access and patient empowerment are essential to improve the quality of patient care. Learn how cloud services can enable improved levels of service, reduce total cost of ownership to redirect capital to other patient-care initiatives and unlock new financial models for growth.

Dutch reactor shuttered until October; radioisotope shortage likely

Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), which operates the recently shuttered nuclear reactor in Petten, in northwestern Netherlands, announced Wednesday it would not restart the reactor before the end of October.

Judge gives Boston Scientific $200M break on Medtronic payout

Boston Scientific scored a major victory in an ongoing patent disputewith Medtronic involving balloon catheters and stent delivery systems,when the judge reduced the award from $250 million to $19 million.

Cleveland Clinic shuns Boston Scientific Taxus as stent market broadens

The Cleveland Clinic has made the decision to allow its stentdistribution deal with Boston Scientific to expire, as the choice forstents in 2008 has broadened by 50 percent.

Dark x-rays provide sharper images

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute and the EPFL inSwitzerland have developed a way of producing extremely detailed x-rayimages, or ‘dark field’ images, using conventional imaging equipment,which could be of use in a number of applications, including medicalimaging and security screening.

Embosphere microspheres block artery blood flow to benign uterine tumors

Tris-acryl gelatin microspheres should be the preferred agent foruterine artery (fibroid) embolization (UAE) versus polyvinyl alcoholmicrospheres, given the known risk of recurrence in patients withpersistent tumor enhancement after UAE, according to a study publishedin the January 2008 issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Siemens new Israel investment includes healthcare interests

Siemens Venture Capital, the investment arm of Siemens, willexpand its investment and change the focus of its activity in Israel.

Celona appoints new CEO

Celona Technologies has named Charles Andrews as CEO to help build thecompany’s customer-facing sales and support activities as well as todevelop its application data migration software.

MDS posts flat Q4 2007 results before reactor shutdown

MDS reported an increase in net revenues for the fiscal 2007 fourthquarter, but a decrease in profits due in part to flat sales andearnings from local subsidiary MDS Nordion.

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