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Medical Imaging


SNM past president calls for domestic production of isotopes

Top Stories | Sunday, August 22 2010
The nuclear medicine community has been pressuring the U.S. government to develop improved domestic capability for producing these materials to reduce this dependence, said Robert Atcher, PhD, MBA, immediate past president of SNM and director of National Isotope Development Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory in White Rock, N.M., at an opening session of the 240th conference of the American Chemical Society, held this week in Boston.
 

Wellstar transitions to image cloud storage

New Products | Thursday, August 12 2010
Wellstar, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Trillennium Medical Imaging, has stated it plans to transition to a virtual cloud data system for imaging storage.
 

Celestica nabs Allied Panels

Mergers & Acquisitions | Monday, July 26 2010
Celestica has signed a definitive agreement to acquire medical imaging company Allied Panels for an undisclosed sum.
 

ACR members appointed to medical isotope advisory committee

Executive Announcements | Tuesday, July 20 2010
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has appointed two American College of Radiology (ACR) members to serve on its Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes, which advises NRC on policy and technical issues that arise in the regulation of medical uses of radioactive material in diagnosis and therapy.
 

Barco implements displays at Midwest hospital

Contracts & Installations | Friday, June 04 2010
Barco has installed nearly 100 MDRC-2120 clinical review displays and Coronis Fusion 6MP DL large-screen diagnostic displays at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
 

Florida imaging centers make move to digital with Intelerad

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, June 02 2010
Diagnostic imaging technologies provider Intelerad Medical Systems will install its IntelePACS breast imaging digital mammography at Naples Diagnostic Imaging Centers, part of the NCH Healthcare system based in Naples, Fla.
 

Toshiba offers imaging online resource for patients

New Products | Monday, May 24 2010
Toshiba America Medical Systems has launched myimagingexam.com, an educational resource for patients receiving diagnostic imaging exams.
 

Icon acquires Timaq, expands into Europe

Mergers & Acquisitions | Monday, May 24 2010
Icon, has acquired Zurich-based Timaq Medical Imaging, which provides imaging services to pharmaceutical and biotech firms, for an undisclosed sum.
 

JACR: Repeated imaging raises cancer risk for patients with chronic conditions

Clinical Studies | Monday, May 24 2010
Patients with chronic and recurrent conditions receive radiation exposures that may put them at increased risk for cancer via medical imaging, according to a study published in the May edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, which found that the proportion of these patients who received estimated total effective doses of greater than 50 mSv within three years was significantly higher for those diagnosed most recently.
 

Czech Nuclear Research Institute to supply Mo-99 to Lantheus

Top Stories | Friday, May 21 2010
Lantheus Medical Imaging has received additional supplies of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) for its TechneLite generator as the result of a recent agreement between the Institute for Radioelements, Fleurus, Belgium, and the Nuclear Research Institute, Rez, Czech Republic.
 

Report: EU mergers & acquisitions on rise in medical imaging

Industry News | Wednesday, May 19 2010
Mergers and acquisitions in the European medical imaging market are on the rise and because the healthcare industry is among the least affected by the economic downturn, there is sufficient funding available for healthcare deals, resulting in this increase in the number of takeovers, according to market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
 

AAPM hosts summit to build national consensus of CT scan techniques

Industry News | Friday, May 14 2010
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) hosted a national summit in Atlanta last week, calling for the standardization of scanning techniques as a way of addressing the recent media attention and concerns of patients undergoing CT scans.
 

Carrot Medical enters agreement with German medical equipment provider

Partnerships & Alliances | Thursday, May 13 2010
Medical imaging display provider Carrot Medical has partnered with Munich-based MAVIG GmbH, a provider of medical imaging monitor suspension systems.
 

Carestream provides management solutions to Native American health service

Contracts & Installations | Friday, May 07 2010
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Health Service in Shawnee, Okla. has selected medical imaging and image information management systems from Carestream Health to be installed in its facilities serving the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma.
 

Analogic restructures, Mervat to spearhead new unit

Industry News | Thursday, April 29 2010
Medical imaging technology provider Analogic has combined the leadership of its OEM medical businesses, and named Mervat Faltas as senior vice president and general manager of the newly combined business unit.
 

Merge completes Amicas merger

Top Stories | Wednesday, April 28 2010
Merge Healthcare successfully closed the merger agreement with Amicas Wednesday, creating a medical imaging software and health IT technologies provider.
 

GE, EU companies seek to cut energy use by ultrasound

Industry News | Monday, April 26 2010
GE Healthcare and a group of ten other medical device manufacturers within the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT industry are committing to reducing the average energy consumption of new ultrasound products by 25 percent by 2012.
 

NightHawk announces customer advisory board

Executive Announcements | Friday, April 23 2010
Teleradiology services provider NightHawk Radiology Services has created a customer advisory board designed to provide input and feedback to its customers.
 

Siemens supplies Ohio provider with revenue cycle software

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, April 21 2010
Siemens Healthcare has installed its web-based revenue cycle software, Soarian Financials, at the 1,032-bed Case Medical Center facility, which is a part of the University Hospitals in Cleveland.
 

Samplify introduces ultrasound receiver module

New Products | Monday, April 19 2010
Medical imaging technologies provider Samplify Systems has released a series of 32-channel ultrasound analog front-end receiver modules in a small-outline, dual-in-line configuration.
 
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Feature: U.S. needs national strategy to curb imaging overutilization

Medical imaging overutilization--a growing concern in the U.S.--exposes patients to unnecessary radiation, while also adding to rising healthcare costs, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. In an interview, William R. Hendee, PhD, lead author, reviewed various methods by which medical imaging could be curtailed.

Radiology: Prelim study shows CE breast CT outperforms CT, mammo

Dedicated contrast-enhanced (CE) breast CT delivered significantly improved conspicuity of malignant breast lesions, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), compared with unenhanced breast CT and mammography, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

Radiology: Rad role may evolve as image-guided biopsies trend up

CT, ultrasound and MRI have helped shift biopsy techniques away from more invasive approaches toward image-guided percutaneous techniques, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology. The trend toward less-invasive approaches translates into enhanced safety and efficiency and could lead to more interaction between patients and radiologists.

CMS Webinar: Incentive payments to offset EHR adoption, not reimburse

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive payments are not considered reimbursement for money expended on EHR technology, but are intended to offset the cost associated with adoption and ongoing meaningful use, according to CMS during an Aug. 12 webinar.

CMS webinar: Eligible professionals can expect EHR incentives in 2011

Funding incentives for EHR use is the main goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) meaningful use initiative, and there are incentive programs for both hospitals and eligible professionals, according to Elizabeth Holland, health insurance specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke during a CMS-sponsored webinar Aug. 8.

Webinar: Stage 1 of meaningful use is for quality reporting acclimation

Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use incentives aim to strike a balance between the overall goal of EHR use and widespread adoption, while avoiding added work, said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical informatics officer at Elsevier Health Services, during a HIMSS webinar titled “Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care.”

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