Chest ultrasound is a viable alternative to chest CT in evaluating pediatric patients with pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
GE Healthcare has netted the first installations of its new cadmium zinc telluride (CZT)-based SPECT/CT nuclear cardiology camera featuring Alcyone technology, the Discovery NM/CT 570c. The system has been installed at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Dunlee (Booth 4003) is introducing the Reevo 240G replacement CT tube at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago this month.
Gilbert Hospital in Gilbert, Ariz., has installed a 64-slice Lightspeed volume CT (VCT) imaging system from GE Healthcare to diagnose disease and illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, stroke and chest pain.
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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.