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Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust of Hampshire, England, has installed 10 Ysio wi-D digital radiography (DR) systems from Siemens Healthcare.
Digital x-ray detectors are finally untethered and, in some cases, surprisingly easy to implement, according to a report issued today from healthcare market research firm KLAS.
The market for electronic medical record systems will exceed $5.4 billion in North America and $1.4 billion in Europe by 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, a San Jose, Calif., market research firm.
Siemens Healthcare has developed a new application for interventional radiology, the Syngo Neuro PBV IR.
Written by Jeff Byers
Recent requirements from the Joint Commission and the American College of Radiology (ACR) add to the growing number of quality demands being placed upon radiology departments. In an increasingly complex regulatory and financial environment, comprehensive quality management processes are essential. The digital dashboard holds the answers to today’s problems—if you only you dare to fully utilize them.
Siemens Healthcare has donated medical equipment and supplies to the Haiti disaster relief efforts.
In vivo optical molecular imaging is expected to move into clinical use as key tools in personalized medicine, complementing more established imaging tools, such as CT and MRI, and equipment sales are expected to reach $400 million in 2014 and nearly $1 billion by the end of the decade, according to a market report from Strategies Unlimited.
Health IT technologies provider Carestream Health has appointed Markus Lusser to be the new senior vice president of global sales and services and a member of its senior leadership team.
United Health Services has inked a multi-year agreement with Siemens Healthcare for the installation of its Web-based healthcare information system (HIS), Soarian, into the multi-facility healthcare system.
Siemens Healthcare announced yesterday that Henri "Rik" Primo, director of marketing and strategic relationships, image and knowledge management, has been re-elected as chair of the medical imaging informatics section of the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA).
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PETNET Solutions, a subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions, is preparing to distribute NaF-18 (sodium fluoride-18) through its network of 47 PET radiopharmacies in the U.S. in support of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) memorandum to allow for coverage with evidence development of NaF-18 PET imaging.
Siemens Healthcare has implemented its Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, England, for general musculoskeletal, neurological, breast and renal scanning.
Siemens Healthcare has renewed its strategic alliance with EHR/practice management company NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, to deliver ambulatory IT software.
Siemens Healthcare has selected LinkMed’s ONCOlog Medical “Dignity Carrier” for preparing patients for PET/CT imaging for special applications.
Healthcare providers are finding greater success and satisfaction for application hosting working with software vendors but are able to host a wider selection of applications by partnering with services firms, according to a report from KLAS, a healthcare market research firm.
Whitegate Health Centre, a primary care facility for musculoskeletal and neurological services in Blackpool, England, has installed a Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI from Siemens Healthcare.
The European nuclear imaging equipment market should almost triple in value between 2008 and 2015, according to an analysis by global business intelligence firm GlobalData.
St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis has installed a Somatom Definition AS CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare.
IBM is extending its lending arm, IBM Global Financing, to four EHR providers--Siemens Healthcare, Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Healthcare Management Systems and SCC Soft Computer--through new financing agreements.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has announced that nine radiation oncology equipment manufacturers passed at least one portion of interoperability at its third Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise–Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) Connectathon.
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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.