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Lumedx, cardiovascular information systems developer, has integrated the Philips Healthcare QLAB advanced 2D and 3D ultrasound quantification tools to its CardioPACS imaging solution for better diagnostic accuracy.
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and advanced clinical decision support offerings.
Philips Healthcare and St. Louis-based Quick Study Radiology have partnered to sponsor the National Rural Health Association (NRHA), a nonprofit membership organization that provides guidance on rural health issues.
Philips has entered into a three-year agreement with Nashville, Tenn.-based home health, companion care and therapy services provider SunCrest Healthcare.
Royal Philips Electronics and Celsion said that their joint research program to evaluate Celsion's heat-activated liposomal drug ThermoDox in combination with MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a combination therapy to non-invasively treat difficult cancers has successfully completed the feasibility stage.
CT gastroscopy, or virtual gastroscopy, is almost equally useful in distinguishing between malignant and benign gastric ulcers, according to research published this month in Radiology.
Two medical facilities in Oregon have installed image management and reporting systems from Digisonics.
Philips Healthcare has released FlexVision XL, a 56-inch LCD screen that enables clinicians to display multiple images simultaneously in their preferred size and layout.
Royal Philips Electronics will equip its dictation microphone SpeechMike with SpeechControl, allowing SpeechMike to be used with its Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition program.
1.5T MRI scanners are maintaining their foothold, supported by imaging enhancements and more powerful gradients that are helping to decrease exam time, streamline department workflow and improve image resolution across a wide spectrum of neurological, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and oncological imaging.
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ATLANTA--At HIMSS10 this week, Philips unveiled IntelliSphere, a new identity for its portfolio of healthcare informatics products.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Concern about the cancer risk from low medical level radiation, particularly low-dose radiation delivered from CT scans, has been growing in the healthcare community.
Molecular diagnostics company Biocartis has acquired Netherlands Royal Philips Electronics’ technology platform for fully-automated DNA/RNA molecular diagnostic testing designed for applications in a wide range of patient sample testing, including oncology and infectious diseases.
A patient treated at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. has received the first-ever radiation treatment planned with Philips' Pinnacle3 SmartArc technology.
The 11C Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) has shown that it is a useful marker for amyloidosis, a pathogenic process in Alzheimer’s disease (AD); however, a facility must have an on-site cyclotron to produce the compound. A multinational team of researchers has found that the 18F-labeled thioflavin derivative of PiB, 18F-flutemetamol, shows promise for amyloidosis affinity, according to research published in this month’s Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Philips has introduced its MammoDiagnost VU, a standalone mammography workstation that enables multi-vendor and multimodality image management and integration, to the U.S. market.
peerVue reported that is has added five new customers for its qiVue product in the first quarter of 2009.
One of the foremost factors in determining the success of a health IT merger or acquisition is the fate of the acquired company's senior management, according to a new report from healthcare research firm KLAS.
Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, has implemented a new program to enhance care of the critically ill in remote communities of Alaska.
Fueled by promising clinical studies, computer-assisted detection (CAD) technology continues to improve early lung cancer detection: greater sensitivity, fewer false-positives.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.