Stamford, CT and Milwaukee, WI – May 13, 2015 – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. today announced the completion of its acquisition of Teramedica, Inc., a global healthcare informatics company and a leading provider of vendor neutral, enterprise solutions. The acquisition will allow Fujifilm to offer the market a leading Vendor Neutral Archiving (VNA) technology.

Protecting patient data from hackers and thieves can be difficult—but there are some straightforward things IT teams can do to help keep that data secure.

McKesson spent a good deal of its time at HIMSS15 showcasing a new, vendor-neutral IT suite aimed at helping healthcare providers orchestrate workflows and increase interoperability—not least by image-enabling their EHR systems.

ATLANTA, April 09, 2015 — McKesson announces Conserus™, a suite of flexible, vendor-neutral solutions for healthcare IT enterprise and diagnostic imaging. The Conserus suite includes flexible quality and communication Workflows, Enterprise Worklists driven by clinical and business logic, an Enterprise Image Repository and a Clinical Data Exchange.

Every hospital-based radiology department in the U.S. knows it needs to reduce costs while improving care—now, not later on down the road—but only the most focused and forward-looking manage to pull off the feat one day and, the next, secure its sustainability for many years to come.

Sectra (STO: SECT B) is launching a solution for storing, viewing and sharing digital pathology images. The solution enables more efficient cancer care by enhancing collaboration and sharing of images between pathologists and radiologists.

“The patient refused an autopsy.” “Discharge status: alive but without permission.” “Patient has two teenage children but no other abnormalities.” Classic comedic lines from Monty Python’s Flying Circus? Nope. Real-world examples of muffed medical dictation that could have been caught upon utterance by natural language processing (NLP) technology.

Radiology helped pioneer clinical informatics over the past three decades. But by now, the new ways have become everyday operating procedures across the enterprise. The present reality offers radiology some developing opportunities—and poses some pressing questions.