MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH
IHE Radiology: What's New in 2006?
Every year, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) advances and expands the levels of multi-vendor integration by defining and testing new integration protocols. Rita Noumeir, PhD, CTO of Soft Medical and a member of the IHE Radiology Technical and Planning Committees, rolled out for meeting-goers the new radiology-specific integration profiles and options introduced in 2006 during an informatics demonstration held in the Lakeside Learning Center on Sunday.
New standards to help with interoperability
Reporting in the radiology domain is the highest priority for 2007 for the Integrating Health Enterprise (IHE), said H. Solomon of GE Healthcare during his presentation, "Electronic Measurements, Electronic Reports: IHE, DICOM and HL7 CDA" on Sunday at RSNA 2006.
New ultrasound technique helps pinpoint malignant breast lesions
A new ultrasound technique has proven to be highly effective in helping radiologists distinguish between benign and malignant breast lesions. The technique makes use of elasticity imaging and proved effective in nearly all the cases looked at by a team at Northeastern Ohio University.
MRIs set researchers not-so-straight about posture
What is typically considered good posture might not be so good after all. Research unveiled today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago shows that sitting in an upright position places considerable strain on your back.
CT scans help researchers come closer to solving King Tut mystery
Computed tomography has given Egyptian radiologists what they believe could be the answer to how King Tutankhamun died. Ashraf Selim, MD, radiologist at Kasr Eleini Teaching Hospital, Cairo University in Egypt, took part in an international effort that studied the 3,300-year-old mummy making use of a mobile multi-detector CT scanner.
MRI helps identify older athletes at risk for heart attack
A MRI study has shown that cardiovascular disease can be difficult to identify in healthy marathon runners over age 50 because it is difficult to distinguish from the effects of training the heart muscle. The findings were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Toshiba to install 1st 256-slice CT at Johns Hopkins
Toshiba America Medical Systems today announced that it will install the first U.S. site beta 256-slice CT scanner at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute in February 2007.
Reader poll: Radiology informatics expected to be
hottest RSNA topic
Of readers responding to last week's Health Imaging News poll, just under 37 percent believe that radiology informatics will be the biggest topic discussed at the show this week at the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago.
Empiric Systems, Fujifilm team on web-based PACS and RIS for imaging centers
Empiric Systems announced today a partnership with FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA that will leverage their respective expertise, channels, and product offerings in web-based radiology PACS and web-based RIS to provide a complete radiology PACS/RIS solution to out-patient imaging centers.
ZONARE marks 500 mark with z.one ultrasound system
ZONARE Medical Systems announced at the annual Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) meeting today in Chicago that the company has reached 500 worldwide installations of its z.one ultrasound system.
Imaging on Call names new CEO
Teleradiology provider Imaging On Call announced that it has named Brian Phelan to take over the leadership role for the company as CEO.
Provox and VoxComparison partner for comparative
study reference tool
Provox, a provider of speech recognition based radiology reporting and medical documentation solutions, and Vivalog Technologies, a provider of knowledge management systems, today announced a new joint project dubbed VoxComparison.
