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Personnel of the NFL's Green Bay Packers can now capture and view medical images of injured players using a Kodak Directview Classic CR system from Carestream Health.
Medrad Multi-Vendor Service has extended its imaging equipment service offering for third-party, field-based service on various brands of dry imagers and CR modalities such as Carestream's Kodak Medical, Agfa HealthCare and Fujifilm Medical Systems.
A new long-length imaging system is now available for the Kodak Directview DR 7500 System from Carestream Health.
Carestream Health has received several orders for its digital medical imaging solutions that include mobile, tabletop and CR systems, as well as DR systems.
Viztek (Booth 9131) is introducing a turnkey digital conversion package combining its Opal-RAD PACS and an advanced, affordable Kodak CR device.
KODAK's Health Group showcased its Radiation Oncology Beam Dosimetry Package at last week's at last weeks last week's American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting in Denver, Colo.
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Fueled by promising clinical studies, computer-assisted detection (CAD) technology continues to improve early lung cancer detection: greater sensitivity, fewer false-positives.
St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leipzig, Germany, has commissioned a Kodak Directview DR 9500 system from Carestream Health.
Carestream Molecular Imaging, a division of Carestream Health, has begun providing custom conjugation services for its Kodak X-Sight Nanospheres and Large Stokes Shift Dyes. In addition, the firm has released two new gel imaging systems to advance its popular line of Kodak Gel Logic Systems for in vitro applications in life science research laboratories.
Springfield Clinic of Springfield, Ill., has ordered two Kodak Directview DR 7500 systems and two Kodak Directview CR 975/825 systems from Carestream Health.
A European Union project aims to create an Ebay-style online market for radiology services.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.