Situational awareness software developer Status Solutions has partnered with wireless health and safety monitoring system provider AFrame Digital for remote patient monitoring.

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has selected Bruker Daltonics to design and build a Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance magnet, with a field strength of 21.0 tesla (T).

Researchers from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania have developed an automated radiation dose extraction tool that polls existing CT dose datasets to extract dose-related parameters, which may be used to train and educate healthcare providers and create cumulative radiation dose profiles for patients. The system delivers improved patient care and management, stated the authors in an article published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Stryker has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Boston Scientific's neurovascular division for $1.5 billion.

Reports of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts demise might be premature, but the Act or parts of it could take on an altered state after Tuesdays elections. 

Clearly, everyone in marketplace cares about saying 'yes' to the iPad. Healthcare is particularly interested in iPhones and iPads, said Brian Reed, vice president of products at BoxTone, speaking at a HIMSS webinar titled Secure and Manage Enterprise iPads at the Point of Care last week.

GE Healthcare IT unveiled steps it is taking to assist customers in the transition to ICD-10, which will require system and business changes throughout the healthcare industry, at this weeks Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) meeting in New Orleans.

Home healthcare and social services IT developer Sandata and Patient Access Solutions, a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based health IT and financial processing technology company, have signed an agreement to integrate their products for the home healthcare industry.