Medicare beneficiaries who underwent coronary CT angiography (CCTA) in nonacute settings had a higher likelihood of undergoing subsequent invasive cardiac procedures and have increased coronary artery disease spending compared with patients who underwent stress testing, according to a study published March 7 in the
Journal of the American Medical Association. In response, several researchers submitted letters supporting and challenging the author’s findings.
GE Healthcare demonstrated the newest version of its Centricity Radiology Mobile Access platform, which allows radiologists to remotely select and view patient images from Centricity PACS on their mobile Apple devices, at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Merge Healthcare, a developer of enterprise imaging and interoperability technologies, has selected Dell as its provider of cloud computing services, storage and enterprise hardware products for information access, management and archiving among its portfolio of image interoperability technologies.
High unemployment, increasing enrollment in Medicaid and an otherwise dismal economy have affected the medical technology market, according to a recently released Ernst & Young report, “Pulse of the industry: Medical technology report 2010.” With uncertainties ahead, the authors write, many hospitals are holding onto their dollars.
