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X-ray product and manufacturing company S&S Technology has released the EW100-UVGI ergonomic workstation & keyboard sanitizer product.
Biospace Med has entered into a distribution agreement with medical diagnostic imaging company Oldelft Benelux for the employment of its 2D/3D x-ray image technology, EOS.
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.
Viztek is working with Westbury. N.Y.-based Complete Radiology Reading Service (CRRS), in configuring the CRRS technology to a network of children’s hospital in Port au Prince, Haiti, in order for CRRS to help read imaging exams.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center are incorporating radiation dose exposure reports into the EMR, an effort that they hope will lead to an accurate assessment of whether any cancer risk is associated with low-dose radiation exposure from medical imaging tests, based on an article in February’s Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Researchers have reportedly identified a biological marker in the brains of those exhibiting post-traumatic stress disorder using magnetoencephalography (MEG), based on a study published Jan. 20 in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
Bracco Diagnostics has selected Datalliance VMI as the platform for its vendor managed inventory program.
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) is standing behind vertebroplasty--a minimally invasive treatment for vertebral compression fractures--despite a controversy that arose over two studies that concluded the treatment offered no benefit over a placebo procedure.
The Transportation Security Administration is looking to deploy whole-body scanners, which produce anatomically correct body images and can detect objects and substances concealed by clothing, at security checkpoints in U.S. airports. The American College of Radiology (ACR) has confirmed the safety of the scanners the TSA seeks to deploy.
Western New York Radiology Associates, an imaging practice in Buffalo, N.Y., has selected Corepoint Health’s Corepoint Integration Engine to orchestrate its internal workflow and external patient data flow.
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Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands launched the Gemini LXL, a new PET/CT scanner, and DoseAware, a new dose-reducing solution for interventional procedures at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 this week in Vienna.
Digital x-ray detectors are finally untethered and, in some cases, surprisingly easy to implement, according to a report issued today from healthcare market research firm KLAS.
Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Va., has implemented the DRX-Evolution system from health IT provider Carestream Health into the new wing of its emergency department.
Eastern Diagnostic Imaging and InfiMed have developed an original equipment manufacturer distribution partnership for the wireless technology in the portable x-ray environment, the i5 Mobile DR upgrade for GE Healthcare's AMX-4 and AMX-4+ portables.
A fully automatic 3D reconstruction software has compared favorably to 2D x-ray images in the cath lab, while also contributing new clinical information about patients' coronary anatomy, according to a feasibility study reported Jan. 26 online in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions.
The use of educational intervention can affect emergency department physician decisions on whether to use ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) scanning rather than CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for patients presenting with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), according to a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
DMS Topline Medical, a provider of used and reconditioned monitoring equipment, ultrasound systems, rentals and associated parts, has expanded its portfolio with the addition of used diagnostic imaging parts.
Fremantle Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, has installed six Carestream Health's DRX-1 systems in general x-ray rooms across the 450-bed facility’s radiology and emergency departments.
Canon U.S.A., a digital imaging provider, has appointed Chris Duca as president of Virtual Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon.
Central Kentucky Radiology has signed a new agreement with image and information management solutions company, Amicas.
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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.