Rochester, NY, March 16, 2015.  Aycan, a recognized global leader in medical imaging, is celebrating ten years of technology investment and innovation in the OsiriX platform, which they’ve helped evolve to now include advanced integration capabilities, a service organization, applications, and plug ins designed to improve productivity and patient care.

A small imaging-informatics company just got a large infusion of cash to refine its forthcoming product line and speed its progress along the regulatory road.  

The radiology department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has become the first hospital account on Figure 1, a social media community for medical and nursing professionals to share clinical cases and discuss treatment.

Stamford, C.T., March 4, 2015 (Booth #623) – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., will demonstrate the next generation of echocardiography structured reporting , with the latest version of Synapse Cardiovascular 6.0*and Synapse 3D 4.1 at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 64th Annual Scientific Session & Expo on March 14 -16 in San Diego, CA.

Stamford, C.T., February 24, 2015 – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. has received ONC HIT 2014 Edition Complete EHR certification for Synapse RIS Version 6.3.3., which designates that the software is capable of supporting Eligible Professionals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Many advances have been made since the Medicare Imaging Demonstration was implemented in 2009.

Last week health insurer Anthem announced that hackers had accessed a database containing the personal information of up to 80 million people. The insurer reported that the breach exposed names, birthdays, addresses and social security numbers and that it’s likely that tens of millions of records were stolen. Anthem isn’t sure how the breach occurred, but said it was the target of a “very sophisticated external cybertattack.” 

Picture this. You’re in charge of medical imaging at a practice employing numerous radiologists across several sites. Your boss knocks on your office door. Comes in and asks you for a quick snapshot of practice-wide performance. Wants to know report turnaround times by radiologist and by site. Says, “That’s really all I want. It’s not a big deal, right?”