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Consortium of NHS trusts sign cloud and VNA deal with Sectra

In the UK, a consortium of NHS trusts has signed its second deal this year with imaging technology provider Sectra. Known as SWASH, the consortium includes Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, Isle of Wight NHS trust, Salisbury NHS FT, Southern Health NHS FT and University Hospital Southampton NHS FT. The aim of the deal is to advance how […]

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AI platform helps diagnose prostate cancer, Lancet report shows

A team of researchers in Sweden has discovered that an artificial intelligence platform is capable of accurately diagnosing prostate cancer in tissue samples, offering the potential to speed up diagnostics and reduce costs for healthcare services The findings, published in The Lancet Oncology in December, suggest AI systems can be trained to detect and grade […]

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Implementation best practices: Going live with new imaging tech

Imaging technology is used daily, constantly, in healthcare. It’s crucial to the successful delivery of care, and radiologists and other caregivers need to be able to rely on it, rain or shine. An effective deployment of new imaging IT at a hospital or outpatient facility is key to caregivers using it successfully. The highly complex […]

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Innovative imaging technology effectively measures disease severity in rare neurodegenerative disorder

A rapid, non-invasive eye exam that uses innovative imaging technology effectively measures the severity of disease in patients with a rare neurodegenerative disease called Friedrich ataxia, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers. The results suggest that the exam, known as corneal confocal microscopy (CCM), could be a […]