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Siemens


Symantec's cloud-based storage compatible with Siemens’ PACS

Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, August 31 2010
Storage management systems developer Symantec Health and Siemens Healthcare have completed compatibility testing for Symantec’s cloud-based medical image archiving offering and Siemens’ PACS technology.
 

Report: Molecular imaging device market to reach $6.6B by 2014

Industry News | Friday, August 20 2010
There is a 5.8 percent yearly increase in the market for molecular imaging devices and the market is expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2014, according to a market research report from Kalorama Information.
 

Siemens, RSNA issue 2010 rad research grant winners

Industry News | Monday, August 02 2010
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research and Education Foundation and Siemens Healthcare have announced the two winners of the 2010 Siemens Healthcare/RSNA radiology research grants.
 

Siemens' Soarian Clinicals expands West

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, June 30 2010
BJC HealthCare has signed a $49 million, 12-year agreement to migrate 11 of its hospitals to Siemens’ Soarian Financials   enterprise web-based revenue cycle tool.
 

Siemens PET/CT to assess military personnel at new rehab center

Contracts & Installations | Monday, June 28 2010
Siemens PET/CT imaging technology, the Biograph mCT has been selected by the National Intrepid Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, which opened last week in Bethesda, Md.
 

ISCT Feature: Annual Workstation Face-Off was ‘impressive’

Web Exclusives | Saturday, May 22 2010
In front of a full conference room at the International Symposium on Multi-Detector Row CT last week, Carestream Health, GE Healthcare, Philips, Siemens, TeraRecon, Vital Images and Ziosoft competed in the eighth annual Workstation Face-Off in San Francisco, yielding “impressive and surprising results,” the event's moderator Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, said in an interview.
 

Siemens employs Dell's workstation for ultrasound technology

Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, May 18 2010
Siemens Healthcare has selected Dell’s new Precision T5500 Long-Life workstation to power its Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system.
 

Nebraska health system migrates to Soarian HIS

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, May 12 2010
Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Neb. has signed a health IT agreement to begin migrating to Soarian, Siemens’ healthcare information system.
 

Siemens and Olympus to design new endoscope system

Partnerships & Alliances | Friday, May 07 2010
Siemens Healthcare will collaboratively develop a magnetically-guided capsule endoscope system for intragastric observation with Center Valley, Pa.-based Olympus Medical Systems.
 

Siemens Healthcare appoints new senior VP for U.S sales team

Executive Announcements | Wednesday, May 05 2010
John Nosenzo has joined Siemens Healthcare as its new senior VP of zone customer relations and will oversee the U.S. organization’s business volume, responsible for the national sales organization.
 

Ultrasound on the Go: From Stat Care to Visual 'Stethoscope'

Features | Monday, April 19 2010
Written by Gina Narcisi
The proliferation of portable, hand-carried—and now even pocket-sized microportable—ultrasound devices has opened the door to a new mindset for physicians. Instead of moving a patient to the radiology department or rolling imaging equipment to the bedside, a physician can grab a laptop-size scanning system or reach into his lab coat, turn on a smartphone-sized ultrasound scanner and begin scanning anywhere care is administered. Portable ultrasound systems are becoming a part, too, of the overall physical exam—a visual “stethoscope” of sorts to immediately peer into a patient to screen or search for underlying issues.
 

Siemens equips New York-Presbyterian

Contracts & Installations | Monday, April 05 2010
New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City has installed five Siemens Healthcare Artis zeego medical imaging systems for the treatment of brain, heart and vascular and colorectal systems.
 

Siemens lands second install at U.K. hospital

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, March 31 2010
Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, part of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Lancashire, U.K., has installed its second Acuson S2000 ultrasound system from Siemens Healthcare.
 

Pairing CR & DR to Improve Care

Features | Wednesday, March 24 2010
Written by C.P. Kaiser
The technological advancements of computed radiography and digital radiography have kept them relevant and key to timely, high-quality patient care. It’s not an either-or proposition, hospitals must find a way to use them both complementarily to harness the strengths of each to improve patient care.
 

Siemens releases new CT technology with radiation dose features

New Products | Wednesday, March 03 2010
Siemens Healthcare has introduced its Excel Edition 16- and 64-slice CT scanners, the Somatom Emotion and Somatom Definition AS CT, which are reportedly equipped with features to help reduce radiation dose.
 

A Dose of Good News for CCTA: New Techniques Offer Lower Dose, Higher Quality

Cover Story | Tuesday, March 02 2010
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Concern about the cancer risk from low medical level radiation, particularly low-dose radiation delivered from CT scans, has been growing in the healthcare community.
 

Cardiovascular Information Systems: How to Drive Efficiency & ROI

Features | Tuesday, March 02 2010
Written by Mike Bassett
As the U.S. population gets increasingly older (the number of Americans over 65 is expected to increase a little more than 12 percent now to almost 20 percent by 2030), the demands on the nation’s health system—particularly in the area of cardiology—will continue to multiply.
 

Delaware cancer center upgrades radiation equipment with Siemens

Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 01 2010
The Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, part of the Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., has updated its ONCOR linear accelerator with the 160 MLC multileaf collimator from Siemens Healthcare.
 

Siemens nets a $70M imaging contract in Iraq

Contracts & Installations | Monday, February 08 2010
Siemens Healthcare will supply diagnostics imaging equipment to all Ministry of Health hospitals (approximately 100) across Iraq.
 

RSNA: Now's the time for IHE, REM and XDS-I profiles

Conference News | Monday, November 30 2009
Written by Mike Bassett
CHICAGO—With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) has “found its moment in time,” said David Mendelson, MD, chief of clinical informatics and director of radiology information systems at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, during a session at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting on IHE and integration issues.
 
Web Exclusives

Feature: U.S. needs national strategy to curb imaging overutilization

Medical imaging overutilization--a growing concern in the U.S.--exposes patients to unnecessary radiation, while also adding to rising healthcare costs, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. In an interview, William R. Hendee, PhD, lead author, reviewed various methods by which medical imaging could be curtailed.

Radiology: Prelim study shows CE breast CT outperforms CT, mammo

Dedicated contrast-enhanced (CE) breast CT delivered significantly improved conspicuity of malignant breast lesions, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), compared with unenhanced breast CT and mammography, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

Radiology: Rad role may evolve as image-guided biopsies trend up

CT, ultrasound and MRI have helped shift biopsy techniques away from more invasive approaches toward image-guided percutaneous techniques, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology. The trend toward less-invasive approaches translates into enhanced safety and efficiency and could lead to more interaction between patients and radiologists.

CMS Webinar: Incentive payments to offset EHR adoption, not reimburse

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive payments are not considered reimbursement for money expended on EHR technology, but are intended to offset the cost associated with adoption and ongoing meaningful use, according to CMS during an Aug. 12 webinar.

CMS webinar: Eligible professionals can expect EHR incentives in 2011

Funding incentives for EHR use is the main goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) meaningful use initiative, and there are incentive programs for both hospitals and eligible professionals, according to Elizabeth Holland, health insurance specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke during a CMS-sponsored webinar Aug. 8.

Webinar: Stage 1 of meaningful use is for quality reporting acclimation

Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use incentives aim to strike a balance between the overall goal of EHR use and widespread adoption, while avoiding added work, said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical informatics officer at Elsevier Health Services, during a HIMSS webinar titled “Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care.”

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