All the same buzz words and terms that affect healthcare in general are impacting advanced visualization specifically. For example, more and more guidelines regarding specific uses of mobile technologies continue to come from regulatory agencies.

Opto Circuits of Bengaluru, India, has earned FDA approval to sell a new Holter monitor through its American subsidiary, Cardiac Science of Bothell, Wash.

The FDA has cleared Smith & Nephew to sell its single-use Pico device for treating wounds in the U.S.

Watch for the global market for point-of-care diagnostics to jump 3.7 percent by 2016, from $13.8 billion to $16.5 billion.

Privately insured statin users between 55 and 64 years old in the U.S. paid 400 percent higher costs for the drug than did their counterparts in the U.K. whose drugs were paid through the government, according to a study published in the January issue of the journal Pharmacotherapy. The authors found generics cost substantially less in both countries.

SK Capital Partners, a New York City-based private investment firm, has signed a definitive agreement to create IBA Molecular Imaging, a jointly-owned new company derived from the radiopharmaceutical division of IBA (Ion Beam Applications).

InterSystems informatics software platform, InterSystems HealthShare, has been selected as the technology platform for the Illinois Health Information Exchange (HIE), a contract with an estimated value of $7.25 million.

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