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Population health management is a core competency of an accountable care organization or a clinically integrated network that aims to succeed under value-based reimbursement.

Signify Research came out with its analysis on the GE Healthcare spin-off. The firm pointed out many of the same short-term challenges that have been identified in other editorials (e.g. strategic distractions, loss of shared R&D/supply chain/financing operations, increased competitor focus), all of which will require expert execution by the GE Healthcare management team to overcome.

The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) is once again calling on the Trump administration to address the matter of Section 301 tariffs for goods imported from China - this time through the establishment of a timely and robust exemption process.

On 13th June 2018, cancer informatics and digital pathology workflow vendor, Inspirata, announced that it was purchasing GE Healthcare's remaining population health management (PHM) interest, Caradigm.

In recent years, the annual growth rate of the European general radiography market has stalled to a near standstill, and this trend is expected to continue in 2018 with market revenues forecast to increase by a mere 1%. The market has been buoyed in recent years by the transition from analog and computed radiography (CR) to fully digital systems. In Western Europe, this trend has largely run its course, but there are still opportunities for growth, both at a product and country level.

At SIIM 2018, the latest trends in universal viewing and enterprise imaging were of special interest.

GE officials presented a bright future for GE Healthcare when they announced on Tuesday that the medical equipment unit will be spun off in a major corporate restructuring.

Recent hype about cloud technology has yet to materialize in clinical and diagnostic healthcare IT. For advanced visualization in medical imaging especially, public cloud-hosted solutions accounted for less than 5% of the total U.S. market in 2017, and in the rest of the world, the share was even less.

As news broke of the first GE Healthcare business unit to be sold, some may have been underwhelmed both by the scale and symbolism of this deal. However, this first announcement does provide some useful indicators for what to expect from the future of GE Healthcare with John Flannery at the helm

Healthcare IT is becoming increasingly complex. To keep up with current and future requirements, advanced visualization (AV) vendors are organizing themselves into two different categories, each specializing to try and stay ahead of competition.

It's clear that artificial intelligence is continuing to stake territory in radiology, and professionals are looking to incorporate the technology in helping them deliver care.

It is already becoming clear that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a big part to play in the future of medical imaging. However, less clear is the impact of AI on the commercial market for medical imaging hardware. If we take the case of CT, a multibillion-euro hardware and services market, will AI drive greater demand for systems or less?