Black Book Market Research, a healthcare and public opinion research company, has named Fortified Health Security as the top cybersecurity service vendor in the "medical device and internet of things" category.

While organizations have made investments into data security tools, employees remain a major barrier to achieving full privacy, according to a survey commissioned by Biscom.

Radiologists use “variable and complex” language to describe normal thyroid glands in chest CT reports, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Could this have a negative effect on patient comprehension?

A patient from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, has been awarded 700,000 Canadian dollars (more than $540,000) due to a missed tuberculosis diagnosis back in 2008.

NSW Health in Australia has signed a Proof of Concept agreement with the international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B), which has been selected as the preferred vendor for a large enterprise imaging IT solution in New South Wales following a competitive tender process.

Referring physicians are increasingly struggling to understand radiologists’ jargon in written imaging reports, a trio of California physicians wrote in the Journal of the American College of Radiology this week. That lack of communication could result in misguided treatment.

Natural language processing (NLP) techniques can help extract relevant data from free-text radiology reports, according to a study published in Journal of Digital Imaging.

Dicom Systems, a California-based enterprise imaging and teleradiology IT company, has announced the release of Load Balancer, an updated module for its Enterprise Imaging Unifier platform.