Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon IBM Watson in order to provide medical professionals with improved access to current and comprehensive cancer data and practices.
GE (NYSE: GE) announced five innovation award winners as part of the first stage of its $100 million "GE healthymagination Cancer Challenge." More than 500 ideas from 40 countries were submitted, sparking robust conversations among more than 200 academic institutions and researchers on the Challenge's open innovation platform.
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital has become the 50th hospital in the UK to install syngo®.via from Siemens Healthcare. The advanced client-server application is initially being used with a newly installed SOMATOM® Definition Flash CT for the swift collation, pre-processing and interpretation of clinical images.
iSOFT, a CSC company, has agreed a deal with Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust for a business intelligence tool to boost performance across its busy laboratory departments to deliver continuous service improvements.