Siemens Healthcare has partnered with Surgical Information Systems (SIS) to expand the reach of the Siemens health information system portfolio (including Soarian, INVISION and MedSeries4) into the perioperative environment, including the SIS Anesthesia platform.

Investigators have reportedly developed a method to thin blood by subjecting it to a magnetic field, according to a recent study at Temple University. Researchers tout the discovery as a possible future alternative to blood thinners such as aspirin.

Last weeks Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference in Washington, D.C., featured conversations about the nuts and bolts of advanced visualization. Integration of systems to share sophisticated images and data remains on the horizon for many facilities, but the technology is getting closer.

The Premerus Diagnostic Accuracy program, offered by MedSolutions, provides health plans and members a solution to misdiagnosis, according to the organization, by utilizing clinical technology to connect patients with diagnostic specialists.

Structural MRI has revealed that individuals with violent criminal histories have larger gray matter volumes in the brain, while previous drug users show smaller volumes in other brain regions, compared with healthy individuals, firming up a growing link between biology and social behavior, according to a study published online June 6 in Archives of General Psychiatry.

Biomedical engineering, or the application of engineering principals to medicine, is continuing to gain traction in both the hospital setting and the classroom, with top universities now offering degrees in the field and experts predicting that the job market will continue to grow at a fast pace.

Telehealth use in Canada has the potential to provide benefits to the nation's health system valued at approximately $730 million, and an additional $440 million in cost avoidance for patients, according to Telehealth Benefits and Adoption," a study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway and published May 30.

The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) has called for an office of medical innovation in the White House, which would be tasked with overseeing proposed and current government policies to assure that they support medical innovation, as part of a series of policy recommendations released June 6.