PositiveID has partnered with Rogers Communications to improve diabetes management.

Teleradiology provider Onrad has promoted Jesse Salen, its vice president of technology from 2007 to 2010, as its new chief technology officer (CTO).

University of Pittsburgh researchers have patented a wireless chip that can be attached to orthopedic devices for the purpose of tracking and monitoring surgical implants. Developers claim the technology could make obtaining information about implants easier.

MRI may enable physicians to identify children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) before the age of 7, by depicting reductions in regional subcortical brain volumes, offering the potential for early treatment and minimized impact of symptoms on children and adults, according to a study published online June 9 in The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

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.

The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG) has created the Bioengineering Innovation and Commercialization Program that PLSG will lead in partnership with the Biomedical Engineering Society of the University of Pittsburgh.

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.

Hypnosis used in combination with local anesthesia (LA) may improve healing time, reduce drug use and lengths of stay for patients undergoing certain types of surgery, according to two studies presented June 12 at the European Anesthesiology Conference in Amsterdam, which assessed hypnosis and LA compared with using general anesthesia for patients undergoing thyroidectomies and breast cancer surgeries.