Monday, January 30
Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and AstraZeneca have formed a three-year collaborative research agreement that will apply molecular imaging technologies to generate new diagnostic imaging tools.
Friday, January 27
Health IT vendor Allscripts has entered into a reseller and development partnership with speech recognition developer M*Modal, allowing Allscripts to incorporate M*Modal’s Speech Understanding technology into its EHRs.
Thursday, January 26
Speech recognition IT vendor M*Modal has entered into a partnership with Merge Healthcare, an enterprise imaging IT vendor.
Tuesday, January 17
NextGen Healthcare has entered into an agreement with Iasis Healthcare, which will allow the Franklin, Tenn.-based 19-hospital healthcare network to deploy the revenue cycle management products NextGen Practice Management and NextGen Practice Solutions.
Thursday, January 12
Cigna and the Weill Cornell Physician Organization, an 850-member group practice in New York City, are partnering to create a collaborative accountable care organization (ACO) initiative, which will adopt a healthcare delivery model similar to the ones demonstrated by accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes.
Tuesday, January 03
DatCard and Fujifilm Medical Systems are expanding their reseller alliance by combining Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS with DatCard’s Agilisys-AIX.
Thursday, December 15
The American College of Radiology’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) took another step toward its scheduled July 2012 launch with the addition of its first affiliate organization, the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA).
Wednesday, December 14
Open Health Tools, a nonprofit trade association that encourages open-source creation of health IT tools, is working with the Georgia Institute of Technology on a public-private initiative to provide a virtual environment where healthcare professionals from various industries, sectors and backgrounds can collaborate on health IT projects.
Wednesday, December 14
Molecular Imaging, a contract research organization (CRO) providing multi-modality preclinical in vivo imaging services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has entered into a licensing agreement with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston to access a number of luciferase-enabled cancer cell lines developed at Dana-Farber.
Monday, December 12
Toshiba and Steris are teaming up to design and market hybrid surgery suites for use in vascular, cardiovascular, pediatric and neurosurgical interventions.
Friday, December 09
Clarient, a GE Healthcare company, and Acorn Research have formed a collaboration around molecular testing of tumor samples.
Tuesday, November 22
Banner Health Network, an accountable care organization (ACO) with headquarters in Phoenix and operations in seven states, has partnered with Aetna, a Hartford, Conn.-based health insurance provider, to create a new health benefits package that will be available to Arizona employers in less than a month.
Monday, November 21
Montage Healthcare Solutions has reached an exclusive reseller agreement with Nuance Communications in which Nuance will sell Montage’s healthcare data mining and performance measurement technology to its established base of radiology customers.
Monday, November 07
PETNET Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, has entered into a commercial agreement with Eli Lilly that grants Siemens PETNET the right to manufacture and distribute Lilly’s molecular imaging agent that is currently under review by the FDA for PET imaging.
Monday, November 07
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) EHR Association and the iHealth Alliance will work collaboratively to support efforts to develop practical, effective and optimized reporting tools to collect information on medical incidents that may be related to the use of health IT.
Wednesday, November 02
Monrovia, Calif-based Radcal will distribute medical imaging phantoms in the U.S. produced by England-based Leeds Test Objects, according to an agreement announced Nov. 1.
Tuesday, November 01
iCAD and Hitachi Medical Systems have reached a distribution agreement covering iCad's breast MR image analysis software and Hitachi's MR systems.
Thursday, October 27
Twelve new hospitals have been connected to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization ‘s health information exchange (HIE) network.
Wednesday, October 26
Sectra, the medical imaging IT company based in Linköping, Sweden, has signed a multi-year Master Research Agreement with University Hospitals in Cleveland.
Monday, October 24
Integrated Oncology Network has entered into an exclusive alliance agreement with Philips Electronics North America to participate with the Philips Cancer Center Group.
