Naval Medical Logistics Command has contracted with Philips Healthcare for two mobile MRI systems to be shipped to Afghanistan to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury of wounded soliders.

I took a short break yesterday to check out a couple of the Health Data Initiative Forums rapid-fire live video app demonstrations. Two things quickly became apparent. First, the amount of high-quality data and metadata publicly available for research, clinical decision support and other purposes has reached critical massbut theres plenty of room for more. Second, these data-silo-buster efforts might be where your next app comes from.

A June report from the McKinsey Quarterly on how the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act will affect employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) hit the internet and created a virtual ripple right up to Pennsylvania Avenue and elicited a response from the White House itself.

The Mayo Clinic will expand its telestroke program, which provides remote evaluation and treatment of stroke, especially those in rural settings.

SleepBot, an app that charts and benchmarks users' sleep habits against potential threats associated with sleep deprivation, claimed the top prize in the Go Viral to Improve Health: Institute of Medicine (IOM)-National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Health Data Collegiate Challenge.

Forty-four managed care organizations have licensed McKesson's molecular and genetic diagnostic management technologies, including recent new health plan customers Molina Healthcare, Paramount Healthcare and Providence Health Plans, part of the five-state Providence Health & Services.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) have unveiled the Investing in Innovations (i2) Initiative, which intends to spur innovation in health IT through prizes and competitions to accelerate the development of solutions and communities to combat challenges in health IT.

As the victory of IBMs supercomputer Watson on Jeopardy highlighted, natural language processing (NLP) has made great strides since its introduction in the 1950s, with radiologists setting their sights on the technologys approaching clinical applications, outlined the authors of a June commentary in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.