Established clinical guidelines hold that patients presenting with ankle issues should not receive advanced imaging ahead of standard radiography. New research shows a substantial proportion of ordering clinicians sending these patients straight to MRI anyway.

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a contract with Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. Sectra will provide the Trust with enterprise imaging as a fully managed cloud service.

The AI software assisted in various tasks, such as segmenting, labeling and measuring normal structures, providing an automated analysis of pulmonary, cardiac and musculoskeletal findings.

Testing AI’s ability to detect carotid artery disease on ultrasound, U.K. researchers have found their algorithm achieved 90% accuracy, along with 87% sensitivity and 82% specificity, at the task.

In addition to the eBooks, study guides and a Virtual Hospital Platform simulator for hands-on training that were acquired, SIIM will now also own various “go to market” courses in subjects such as PACS, DICOM, HL7 and FHIR.

Voice-triggered macros are spoken voice commands that trigger a subsequent command in order to perform a specified task. Software that achieves this is easily implemented into workflows and can complete virtually innumerable tasks. 

Some decisions after a cyberattack are reactive and made on the fly, but imaging operations can take a number of steps ahead of time to plan for unplanned downtime and limit the impact of a temporary outage.

Thirteen healthcare companies have reached $1 billion in valuation this year, an especially notable achievement as the U.S. economy approaches a recession and investors pull back.