Mayo Clinic and IBM have created the Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center, a collaborative research facility aimed at advancing medical imaging technologies to improve the quality of patient care. The center is an extension of a Mayo-IBM research collaboration announced in 2007, the results of which have given physicians the ability to register medical images up to 50-times quicker and provide critical diagnosis in seconds instead of hours.
Cleveland Clinic has chosen a Web-based hospital residency program designed by Ann Arbor, MI-based MedHub, Inc. to be distrbuted throughout the hospital system. MedHub Inc. designed the technology for teaching programs to provide information to accrediting bodies and to help hospitals avoid errors that can result in lost Medicare reimbursements.
Lumberton, NC-based Southeastern Regional Medical Center has contracted RadarFind to install an asset-tracking system that uses active RFID tags. The tags communicate with readers that plug into standard AC outlets and have a design that keeps both outlet sockets available for use by other devices. The hospital hopes the system can help it reduce its spending.
New investment in Medicaid Management Information Systems by state and local governments will drive growth in annual spending on health IT, according to a study released by market research firm Input inc. Input predicted the MMIS market will hit $4.1 billion in 2012, accounting for $2.6 billion of the annual growth in the health IT market of $3.9 billion. Overall the health IT market will expand at 8.6 percent annually, according to Input.
Paul E. Berger, MD, has donated $1.5 million to the Research and Education Foundation of the Radiological Society of North America. The gift will endow the Derek Harwood-Nash Scholar Grant, which will focus on opportunities for international educators and investigators, said RSNA representatives.
KLAS has published an inaugural study that investigates the successes and challenges providers have had incorporating digital mammography into their hospital or clinic. The study focuses on the digital mammography market as a result of provider demand for user feedback. According to the report, despite tremendous market growth, there are currently relatively few full-field digital mammography vendors with FDA approval, but several more are poised for entry. Areas of concern from users surrounding the top vendors centered on their need to scale to the growing demand.