On the 4th March 2020, TeraRecon announced it had signed an agreement to be acquired by the SymphonyAI Group. Here are the facts of the deal, followed by our take on the potential impact on the medical imaging market:
- The terms of the deal were not disclosed and TeraRecon will continue to operate business as usual. However, it will benefit from greater financial backing and the synergistic technologies from other companies in the Group’s portfolio.
- TeraRecon is an Advanced
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GE Healthcare Unveils Medical Device Cybersecurity Offering for Hospitals
- GE Healthcare introduced a new medical device cybersecurity service to help hospital groups fight against cybersecurity risks.
- The offering, entitled Skeye, blends industry expertise, AI and process management tools to augment hospitals’ existing resources and capabilities by providing proactive monitoring through a remote security operations center – helping them detect, analyze and respond to cybersecurity threats and events in real-time.
GE Healthcare has introduced a new
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Hg Takes Majority Holding in Intelerad: 3 Major Implications to Know
- On 23rd Jan 2020, Hg Capital announced it had agreed to acquire a majority stake in imaging IT software vendor Intelerad Medical Systems from previous majority stake owners Novacap.
- The founders, management and employee shareholders at Intelerad will be reinvested, with Novacap remaining as a minority shareholder.
- The company has undergone significant growth in the last four years, announcing a USD75m R&D program in 2019 and acquiring imaging IT workflow specialist Clario Medical
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MaxQ AI to Offer Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) AI-Powered Apps on Blackford Platform
- MaxQ AI and Blackford today announced that MaxQ AI’s FDA-cleared and CE Marked ACCIPIO ICH applications for stroke, traumatic brain injury and head trauma are now available on the Blackford Platform.- Fully integrated with existing systems, the Blackford Platform simplifies the implementation and management of multiple imaging applications and AI algorithms and reduces the load on PACS. - MaxQ AI now has distribution agreements in place with trusted CT OEMs, PACS software, and AI Ecosystem
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MaxQ AI Expands Partnership with GE Healthcare’s PACS Solution
- MaxQ AI and GE Healthcare announces the expansion of their partnership that will bring the power of AI-enabled solutions into hospitals and emergency rooms worldwide.- MaxQ AI’s ACCIPIO ICH and Stroke platform will be integrated into the next generation of GE Healthcare’s PACS and Universal Viewing platforms- This addition makes GE Healthcare the first to offer a comprehensive CT and PACS MaxQ AI offering. MaxQ AI, the industry-leading medical diagnostic AI company, today announced that the
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3 Underfunded Areas Essential To The Success of Value-Based Care
- Third annual Top of Mind for Top Health Systems survey from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) reveals value-based care depends on three underfunded technologies. - KLAS Research shows patient engagement, data analytics, and precision medicine drives better treatments, but barriers remain.As healthcare continues to shift toward value-based care, technology that boosts patient engagement, harnesses all available data for informed decision-making and enables more effective treatments will
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GE Healthcare Launches Enterprise Central Data Warehouse for Clinicians
Key highlights- GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network. - Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and
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Is The Handheld Ultrasound The Fitbit of Clinical Care?
- GE Healthcare’s James Hurley explains how innovations like the handheld ultrasound are inspiring the next digital breed of smarter, smaller, and seamless clinical care tools.
Wearables—once innovations that only lived in inspired minds and science fiction novels are now nearly ubiquitous. You can’t shake a stick, or a hand for that matter, without an adorning Fitbit or Apple Watch attached to it. Yet, what started as a consumer fad is now evolving well beyond it and out disrupt U.S.
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NYC Health + Hospitals to Invest $224M to Upgrade Medical Imaging Technology Over 10 Years
- NYC Health + Hospitals plans to invest $224M over the next 10 years to upgrade its medical imaging technology across the health system. - 230 medical imaging units will be replaced and updated within first four years- Equipment will support the public health system’s goal of standardizing care and providing patients modernized, state-of-the-art imaging technologyNYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest public healthcare system today announced that it is investing $224 million over
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Q&A: How the VHA’s Innovator’s Network Is Transforming Veteran Care
Dr. Ryan Vega explains how the VHA’s Innovator’s Network (iNET) is transforming how the VA identifies, incubates, and deliver healthcare innovation to improve healthcare for veterans.
Innovation is the bud from which all things radical seem to bloom. It’s also the critical element at the center of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) objectives to improve the quality and reach of healthcare for its veterans. Changes spurred by the Mission Act—which hopes to create greater access through
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