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The Miami Children’s Hospital in South Florida has installed Toshiba America Medical System’s Infinix CF-i bi-plane system to obtain images during hybrid catheterization procedures.
Toshiba America Medical Systems has released a new cardiac CT software package for its Aquilion One and Aquilion Premium CT systems.
Nonprofit Catholic community hospital, Little Company of Mary, has installed the Vantage Atlas MR system from diagnostic imaging systems provider Toshiba America Medical Systems.
Toshiba America Medical Systems has named a new vice president (VP) of marketing and strategic development, promoting Doug Ryan to the position from senior drector of the CT business unit.
Vital Images, a provider of advanced visualization software, has appointed Oran Muduroglu as a member of its board of directors.
The Viamo laptop ultrasound system from Toshiba America Medical Systems, a hand-carried system that was introduced at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, has received FDA clearance.
St. Luke’s Lakeside Hospital of the Woodlands in Texas--a new hospital within St. Luke's Episcopal Health System--has selected imaging equipment from diagnostic imaging systems and services provider Toshiba America Medical Systems for its new facility.
Toshiba America Medical Systems has initiated a program that grants customers the opportunity to buy refurbished, previously owned Aquilion CT systems.
Huntington Hill Imaging Center in Pasadena, Calif., has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems' Aquilion Premium CT system.
Toshiba America Medical Systems has upgraded its Infinix VF-i/BP C-arm with large- and mid-size flat panel detectors.
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Intermountain Healthcare will conduct the Speckle Tracking by Echo study, which will use advanced ultrasound technology to determine if asymptomatic diabetics are at risk for coronary heart disease.
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.
Sponsored by Toshiba America Medical Systems, the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) is now accepting submissions for the fourth annual Young Investigator Awards.
While coronary CT angiography (CCTA) can assist in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), the radiation dose exposure during an exam has been a problem. Using volume scans rather than helical scans has the potential to reduce dose by 91 percent, a study published in the March issue of Radiology found.
An international study on CT perfusion imaging at 15 medical centers in eight countries, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, have enrolled the first dozen patients to figure out how well various imaging tests can measure the degree of blockage or narrowing in any particular artery and their use in predicting patients who need catheterization or angioplasty, or bypass surgery.
The Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta has installed the Toshiba American Medical Systems' Infinix VF-i-vascular x-ray system to its 481-bed facility.
Toshiba America Medical Systems introduced the Viamo laptop ultrasound system as a work in progress at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America annual meeting in Chicago last week.
PinnacleHealth, a multisite healthcare system based in Harrisburg, Pa., has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems’s Aquilion Premium multi-detector CT at one of its four campuses.
Provider of diagnostic medical imaging systems, Toshiba American Medical Systems has introduced a new compact ultrasound system, the Aplio MX.
Toshiba America Medical Systems is showcasing a cornucopia of diagnostic imaging technologies at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) conference.
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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.