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Written by Gina Narcisi
Whether CD and DVD burners serve a small, single-center provider, or a large, multi-site healthcare system, the technology helps manage patient images and ease the process of image transfer. The best systems work fast and smart—integrating well with PACS and enabling remote burning and disk labeling.
Written by Mike Bassett
CHICAGO--Core needle biopsy adequately provides tissue samples in pediatric patients with suspected neuroblastoma, according to a paper presented Thursday at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.
Intelerad, a Montreal-based PACS developer, has expanded its customer base with new contracts in the United States, Canada and Australia.
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) has released the results of a poll by Zogby International that suggests “Americans recognize the value of medical imaging as a critical component of high-quality healthcare.”
Uterine fibroid embolization is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for women in a clinical therapeutics article in the Aug. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
NovaRad has added two imaging centers, Forney Diagnostic Imaging Center in Forney, Texas, and West Houston Radiology Associates in Houston, to its PACS customer roster.
GE Healthcare has launched a partnership with a provider of clinical decision support for diagnostic imaging, Medicalis.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled their healthcare reform legislation Friday, calling for a 75 percent increase in the equipment utilization rate and an increase of 25 to 50 percent in the reduction of the technical component of imaging for multiple procedures.
Data released by the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) this week demonstrated that the use rate of diagnostic imaging equipment in an outpatient setting is approximately one half the amount claimed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the Administration of President Barack Obama.
Increased utilization of advanced medical imaging has improved the life expectancy of patients in the United States by nearly nine months, according to a study released this month from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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While radiologists are ready and willing to take advantage of the benefits provided by advances in medical technology, without adequate training and an understanding of what that technology can do, it loses much of its utility.
Agfa HealthCare, a provider of diagnostic imaging and health IT solutions, has signed an agreement with Curagita Holding to acquire all the shares of its subsidiary Insight Agents, a European developer of contrast media, with business activities mainly in Germany.
Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., have sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) spare radiation oncology services from a proposed Medicare reimbursement cut.
MDS, a provider of products and services to the global life sciences markets, has entered into an agreement to sell its MDS Analytical Technologies business, a supplier of drug discovery and life sciences research tools, to Danaher of Washington, D.C., for $650 million in cash.
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee completed its mark up to H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, late Friday evening without the inclusion of a self-referral amendment.
HealthVault, Microsoft’s personal health record (PHR) product, is seeking comment from the diagnostic imaging IT development community on its initial draft design for medical image data types.
The U.S. Air Force has selected and deployed Agfa HealthCare's Impax PACS to replace the existing PACS at Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base.
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with the Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network to expand its existing Diagnostic Imaging Repository to participating hospitals in the Waterloo-Wellington and Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant Local Health Integrated Networks.
Accessing and integrating diagnostic imaging data from modalities, quality-assurance workstations, RIS, PACS and EMR—if used properly and prospectively—can serve as a valuable tool to improve clinical practice and elevate the quality of care, according to Bruce L. Reiner, MD, and Eliot L. Siegel, MD.
An alliance of healthcare providers, technology companies and diagnostic imaging organizations have formed the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition to promote health IT-enabled decision-support for diagnostic imaging, or e-ordering.
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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.