The latest advanced visualization (AV) research continues to prove that personalized medicine is more effective medicine. Studies show that AV tools can play an important role in more effective useand associated cost savingsof invasive disease detection tests and treatments for women.

Barco has unveiled Conference CloneView for projecting high-quality medical images onto a large-screen display.

Merge Healthcare has retained Allen & Company, an investment bank, to assist in exploring and evaluating a range of strategic alternatives, including, but not limited to, a sale of the company or a business combination.

TeraRecon launched iNtuition Review, iNtuition Enterprise Medical Viewer and iNtuition SHARE at the 14th congress of the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology and 63rd annual scientific meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, held in Sydney, Aug. 30 to Sept. 2.

Medtronic has reported single-digit growth in its first quarter of fiscal year 2013, which ended July 27 of this calendar year.

Gamma Medica-Ideas and its related entities have filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection on Aug. 20 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California in Woodland Hills.

Vascular closure device (VCD) failure occurred in 3.3 percent of PCI procedures but varied by device type, according to an analysis of data from a statewide registry in Massachusetts. Compared with patients who had successful VCD deployment, patients whose devices failed had a three-fold higher incidence of vascular complications.

You may notice a few changes with this issue. First, we have changed our name from CMIO to Clinical Innovation + Technology. This reflects the ever-growing responsibilities facing hospital leaders, as well as the increasing need for interdepartmental collaboration to deliver solutions that again, are geared to achieving that triple aim of improving care, improving the health of populations and reducing per capita costs.