Invivo Molecular Imaging has become the first commercial provider of mobile PET/CT imaging services to purchase Siemens Healthcare's Biograph 16 TruePoint PET/CT scanner in a mobile configuration.
On the heels of the FDA’s approval of Amyvid, Siemens Healthcare has applied for FDA 510(k) approval for syngo.PET Amyloid Plaque neurology quantification software. The software may be paired with Amyvid and Siemens biograph mCT PET/CT to comprise an integrated diagnostic imaging system for the detection of amyloid plaques in the living brain
The Defense Logistics Agency, which provides logistics, acquisition and technical services for the U.S. military, has exercised an option on a Siemens Medical Solutions contract for military radiology systems worth up to $1.9 billion.
The FDA has cleared Siemens Healthcare's Somatom Definition Flash dual-source CT system with the Stellar Detector for sale and distribution in the U.S.
Gunter Dombrowe, managing director of Siemens Healthcare sector in the U.K. and healthcare sector lead for the northwest Europe cluster, will retire at the end of March.
Siemens Healthcare has released the syngo DynaCT 360 application for the Artis zeego robotic interventional imaging system.
Siemens Healthcare has released the Acuson S1000 ultrasound system.
Although most of the European women’s health imaging system market will decline over the next five years, overall revenues will increase slightly as a result of growth in the breast imaging system segment, due to the introduction and adoption of more expensive and innovative systems, according to Millennium Research Group.
Siemens Healthcare has developed a new mobile table designed to transport patients from the intervention room to the MRI scanner.
LAS VEGAS—For the first time in more than a decade, staffing shortages overtook concerns over lack of adequate financial support as the No. 1 barrier to implementing IT in this year’s 23rd annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) leadership survey. The results, released Feb. 21 at HIMSS12, include the input of 302 healthcare IT professionals who represent more than 600 U.S. hospitals.
Iterative reconstruction, image processing software that reduces image noise while reducing radiation dose to patients, is the CT scanner technology garnering the most interest today, according to a white paper, “CT Scanning Systems,” published by the ECRI Institute.
Siemens Healthcare has received clearance from the FDA for syngo Aortic ValveGuide, an integrated image processing software that helps cardiologists and cardiac surgeons prepare and perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
The FDA has cleared features associated with Siemens Healthcare's Biograph mCT PET/CT scanner, which can measure metabolic processes and data quantification, including the assessment of neurological disease, cancerous tissue and cardiac blood flow.
The University of Oxford has installed Siemens Healthcare's Magnetom 7T whole-body MRI system, and plans to use the system for clinical neuroscience and cardiology research.
Siemens Healthcare has joined with Lammers Medical Technology to offer the nomag IC MR diagnostics incubator system for the transport of newborns and premature babies as an add-on to Siemens’ 1.5T and 3T MR systems.
Provision Healthcare has signed an agreement with Ion Beam Applications (IBA) for the purchase, installation and maintenance of a new proton therapy system at Tennessee’s first proton beam cancer center, located in Knoxville.
At RSNA 2011, the latest and greatest in radiology engaged nearly 60,000 imaging and informatics stakeholders.
Quality measures are expected to play a large part in the fight to lower healthcare costs while increasing quality of care, but building quality measurement sets that are compatible with a wide range of EHRs and other health IT products has proven difficult for both vendors and healthcare provider organizations.
Siemens Healthcare debuted an array of imaging and informatics advances at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Black Book Rankings has released its annual rankings of the EHR vendors for inpatient settings. A division of the Brown-Wilson Group, a market research firm, Black Book Rankings surveyed 12,075 healthcare system stakeholders familiar with EMRs and graded their rankings of 422 EHR vendors against 18 separate performance areas.
