The Mayo Clinic app has been updated and now includes access to radiology images and Touch ID. The app was launched last October as a free download from Apple’s App Store, and demonstrated the continuing collaboration between Mayo and Apple.

The medical-billing firm Zotec Partners has come out with a software feature that enables leaders of radiology practices to identify inefficiencies in need of fixing.  

In a blog post today from CMS chief medical officer Patrick Conway, MD, the agency signaled its interest in shortening the 2015 reporting period for the federal Meaningful Use programs to 90 days in 2015.

Most knowledge about what works and what doesn’t in cancer treatment draws from the meager 3 percent of cancer patients who participate in clinical trials. A new partnership between the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and SAP, the German software giant, looks to leverage “big data” to glean insights from the other 97 percent. 

Radiologists are putting patients at the center of care with the use of 3D modeling in surgical treatment planning. By leveraging image overlay tools available on FUJIFILM Medical’s Synapse 3D solution, radiologists at Keck Hospital, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital, Los Angeles, are using volumetric imaging to generate 3D models of organs and other parts of the anatomy.

Medical image storage has become complex: People expect easy access to images, and with the proliferation of electronic health records (EHR), this includes physicians. Vendor-neutral archive (VNAs) technology provides a single consolidated enterprise image management system, eliminating silo storage of specialized images.

(November 27, 2014 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Today, RamSoft announces the launch of Essence™, PowerServer™ 6.0’s web-based enterprise Business Intelligence module. Essence™ features interactive data, dashboards and reports.

RSNA, CHICAGO—After a decade of talk about enterprise imaging capabilities, many imaging IT vendors exhibiting at the 100th annual meeting of the RSNA portrayed themselves as health IT companies that happened to make PACS.