Merge Healthcare, a developer of enterprise imaging and interoperability technologies, has selected Dell as its provider of cloud computing services, storage and enterprise hardware products for information access, management and archiving among its portfolio of image interoperability technologies.

Despite a recent Institute of Medicine report calling for the FDA to abandon its 510(k) medical device clearance process, many experts think reform, not abandonment, is the best path. That was among the findings in a Northwestern University survey funded by the Institute of Health Technology Studies that drew responses from more than 350 companies engaged in developing medical devices.

Netherlands researchers raised questions about a study published in the June edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that reported an association between the implementation of a tele-ICU and improved mortality, shorter lengths of stay, and stricter adherence to best practices.

The physical and psychological risks associated with pediatric MRI in a clinical study protocol are no greater for healthy children than risks they face from everyday activities, such as playing soccer or riding in motor vehicles, though the addition of intravenous contrast dye or sedation increases the odds of harm to unacceptable levels, according to a report appearing in IRB: Ethics and Human Research, a journal of The Hastings Center.

Patients with an ischemic lesion visible on diffusion-weighted MRI images, but not on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MRI images, may be within the time window for safe and effective administrative of thrombolytic therapy, according to a study published online Oct. 5 in Lancet Neurology. The study also pointed to the possibility of an imaging biomarker to define a tissue window for stroke thrombolysis, according to an accompanying editorial.

Merge Healthcare has unveiled Merge Honeycomb, a cloud-based service to enable users to upload, download, view and share medical images.

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) has named Carol Herman, an FDA official, as its new senior vice president of standards and policy programs.

Philips Healthcare introduced its latest telehealth software, Philips Telehealth Solutions, at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice Annual Meeting and Exposition this week in Las Vegas.