Industry News | Thursday, March 11 2010
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has endorsed the Safeguard Access to Preventative Services Act (H.R. 4794), which was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) and three original co-sponsors on March 9.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 11 2010
Advanced Accelerator Applications has invested approximately US$ 6 million in Atreus Pharmaceuticals which will be used to expand Atreus’ research in molecular imaging based on Annexin V.
Industry News | Thursday, March 11 2010
The U.S. Senate has passed legislation to expand the number of eligible physicians who might receive incentive payments for the meaningful use of health IT under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
Industry News | Thursday, March 11 2010
A high percentage of CT and MRI examinations are not meeting appropriateness criteria and subsequently yielding negative results, which suggests a need for tools to help primary care physicians hone their imaging decision requests, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 11 2010
Brentwood, Tenn.-based HealthTrust Purchasing Group, LP has inked a three-year contract with FujiFilm Medical Systems USA for its line of Fuji CR (FCR) products, effective April 2010 through March 2013.
Industry News | Thursday, March 11 2010
The Chalk River, Ontario-based National Research Universal (NRU) reactor restart has been delayed until the second half of May 2010.
Industry News | Thursday, March 11 2010
The unprecedented level of detail in EMR clinical data opens new possibilities for defining clinical quality measures in more clinically meaningful ways. However, more detailed data can cause difficulties in ensuring that data across institutions are comparable, according to an article in the online March edition of the Journal of Medical Informatics Association.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 11 2010
Portable x-ray provider MinXray has announced the installation of seven portable x-ray/digital CR systems and equipment in seven different locations throughout Nigeria.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 11 2010
Medical software and device manufacturer Varian Medical Systems will supply Kent Oncology Centre in Southeast with two Clinac iX accelerators with RapidArc capability for radiotherapy treatments.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 11 2010
Digital radiography (DR) marketer and provider Imaging Dynamics has expanded its contract with Orthopaedic Clinic of Daytona Beach with the installation of its 1600 Plus X-Series with X3C technology DR system, the fifth system to be installed within the Clinic.
Conference News | Thursday, March 11 2010
Health IT company athenahealth announced a partnership with online physician community Sermo at the 2010 HIMSS conference in Atlanta last week.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 11 2010
Health IT company Wolters Kluwer Health announced that the Surgery Center of Scottsdale in Arizona has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.
Conference News | Thursday, March 11 2010
At HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week, eClinicalWorks announced on-demand deployment of its EMR management mobile system or any other add-on products.
Conference News | Thursday, March 11 2010
Infinitt North America showcased its new OEM product, Infinitt Accent, at HIMSS10 in Atlanta.
Industry News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has offered an alternative approach for the definition of meaningful use, including the addition of 12 objectives to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Conference News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
PET/CT may help identify patients with disseminated seminoma that was not detected by CT scan, according to a study presented last week at the 2010 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO-GU) in San Francisco.
Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust of Hampshire, England, has installed 10 Ysio wi-D digital radiography (DR) systems from Siemens Healthcare.
New Products | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Digital pathology provider BioImagine has released its iSlide input device, which is a microscope-like interface that allows pathologists to manipulate digital images of slides.
Regulatory News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Humanetics obtained a global exclusive license from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine for patents covering the use of BIO 300 as a medical radiation countermeasure.
Industry News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Areva will be constructing a facility which will produce medical-grade lead-212 for anticancer treatments on its Bessines site in France.
Conference News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Symantec unveiled Symantec Health, a new hosted medical image archiving and sharing application for healthcare providers, at the 2010 HIMSS conference in Atlanta last week.
New Products | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Image analysis and interpretation company Definiens has released its LymphExpert Version 2.0 for sale in Europe after receiving the CE Mark approval.
New Products | Wednesday, March 10 2010
X-ray product and manufacturing company S&S Technology has released the EW100-UVGI ergonomic workstation & keyboard sanitizer product.
Clinical Studies | Wednesday, March 10 2010
A coronary CT angiography-only approach -- when factoring in a $20,000 threshold level for cost per correct diagnosis and $50,000 per quality-adjusted life-year -- is the most cost-effective diagnostic strategy for the evaluation of patients presenting with stable chest pain without known coronary artery disease (CAD) with intermediate CAD prevalence, according to a decision analysis study published in the March issue of Radiology.
Mergers & Acquisitions | Wednesday, March 10 2010
The stockholders of QuadraMed have approved its acquisition by Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm. The all-cash transaction for all of QuadraMed’s stock is valued at approximately $126 million, according to the company.
Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Annapolis Pediatrics in Annapolis, Md., has selected Sage North America to implement the Sage Intergy Suite of financial and clinical products across its four clinics.
Industry News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
A survey of 1,022 Michiganders revealed a gap between insurance coverage and access to healthcare, and the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation suggests that lawmakers must focus on closing this gap.
Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Contrast delivery developer Acist Medical Systems and HealthTrust, a healthcare group purchasing organization, have entered into a three-year contract for the company's cardiovascular injection technology.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
The Virginia State Legislature this week approved a bill mandating health insurers, healthcare subscription plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to fully cover the cost of healthcare services provided through telemedicine services.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Google announced a couple of integration agreements and technology additions for its Google Health product at this year'st HIMSS10 show in Atlanta, including an integration with e-prescribing provider Surescripts and a future collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Partial adoption of meaningful use of health IT should result in the receiving of partial fiscal incentives, wrote Ted Epperly, MD, board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), in a letter to Charlene M. Frizzera, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
At the recent HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta, Intel announced its patient monitoring study with Mayo Clinic and introduced its Start Now initiative, a web portal that contains text and video statements by healthcare leaders about what they are doing to change the future of healthcare today.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
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.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Intelerad Medical Systems' InteleOne solution has been selected by the multi-site Carolina Regional Radiology in North Carolina to interconnect its facilities.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
A survey from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) found that 76 percent of respondents from mostly independent medical practices believe that the government should fully pilot test the 2013 and 2015 meaningful use criteria before requiring them.
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Rcadia Medical Imaging has been issued a CE Mark for its computer-aided detection software--the COR Analyzer system--that helps identify patients with significant coronary artery disease by an analysis of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies.
Executive Announcements | Tuesday, March 09 2010
John R. Adler, Jr., MD, professor of neurosurgery and radiation oncology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has been named vice president and chief of new clinical applications for Varian Medical Systems, effective April 5.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
InConcertCare, a health center-controlled network of eight community and migrant health centers that provides care to 78,000 people in underserved communities throughout Iowa and Nebraska, has selected GE Healthcare for its health IT system.
Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Data protection, availability and recovery solutions provider Venyu and medical data archiving and content management services provider InSite One have entered into a partnership to help manage electronic medical data within healthcare institutions.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
FHN Hospital has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and decision support solutions, participated in the third annual Workstation Face-Off at the 22nd European Congress of Radiology (ECR), held in Vienna.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Medical informatics provider TeraMedica Healthcare Technology showed three additional features for its flagship Evercore-Clinical Enterprise Suite—an updated web viewer, image management architecture and dashboard module—at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week.
Conference News | Monday, March 08 2010
Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.
Clinical Studies | Monday, March 08 2010
According to a recent study published in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, prostate cancer patients who visit a urologist with or without a medical oncologist consultation are treated more frequently with hormone therapy, watchful waiting or a radical prostatectomy, while those who visit a radiation oncologist appear more likely to receive radiation therapy for the treatment of their disease.
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
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.
Clinical Studies | Monday, March 08 2010
A study using PET imaging to compare nicotine accumulation in smokers found that nicotine washed out of the addicted smoker’s lungs and into their blood less efficiently and the study could help provide a treatment program for cigarette smokers who are trying to quit, according to a research scheduled to appear online in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of March 8.
Industry News | Monday, March 08 2010
There is a real risk of inadvertent disclosure of personal health information (PHI) through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, although the risk is not as large as for personal financial information, according to an article published online in the March issue of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
Industry News | Monday, March 08 2010
Image analysis and workflow solutions provider iCAD has been granted a patent-number 7,660,448, which will cover all future iterations of its SecondLook Digital computer-aided detection (CAD).
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Merge Healthcare and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have initiated a partnership to create a testing environment for the company’s new mobile healthcare technologies.
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Visualization technology provider Barco has inked a two-installation agreement with the Medical Centre Leeuwarden, a teaching hospital located in Leeuwarden and Harlingen, the Netherlands.
Conference News | Monday, March 08 2010
TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and decision support technologies, released updates to its Aquarius iNtuition at the 22nd European Congress of Radiology (ECR), March 4-8 in Vienna.
Industry News | Monday, March 08 2010
Intermountain Healthcare will conduct the Speckle Tracking by Echo study, which will use advanced ultrasound technology to determine if asymptomatic diabetics are at risk for coronary heart disease.
Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, March 08 2010
The American Medical Association (AMA) and Dell are collaborating for health IT adoption for such technologies as EMRs, e-prescribing and laboratory services through the AMA’s new health information solutions platform for physicians.
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Positron, a molecular imaging solutions company focused on nuclear cardiology, has sold its Attrius PET scanner to Ochsner Health System of Louisiana.
Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, March 08 2010
The Ohio State Medical Association has expanded its agreement with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems.
Conference News | Sunday, March 07 2010
Vital Images showcased its Vitrea Enterprise Suite at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta, which allows nurses and referring physicians to access imaging data from home or in their office via the web-based suite, and clinicians to use Vitrea as a planning tool when preparing for cases.
Conference News | Sunday, March 07 2010
3M Health Information Systems is looking to give "physicians back their mobility" in 2010, David Owen, product line marketing manager, told CMIO at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week, where the company introduced its Mobile Dictation platform for smartphones, designed for healthcare providers.
Financial News | Friday, March 05 2010
Neoprobe has reported a net loss of $37.72 million in fiscal year 2009, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, compared with a loss of $4.63 million in 2008. However, the $295,000 loss reported in the fourth quarter of 2009 was down from the $1.16 million net loss posted in the previous-year quarter.
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Biomedical equipment and software company Esaote introduced a new RIS/PACS, Estensa, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 in Vienna, March 4-8.
Executive Announcements | Friday, March 05 2010
Walter Tarca has joined Nucletron as the vice president (VP) for the Asia Pacific, and will oversee its business in the region through an expansion of its direct presence and increased investments in training and educational programs towards the adoption of brachytherapy.
Contracts & Installations | Friday, March 05 2010
Medical software provider Medipattern has signed a 38-site agreement with Doshi Diagnostic Imaging Services of New York and Florida to install its B-CAD-For-Life package, its breast care program.
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Barco has added two new point-of-care solutions to its product line, the ProScribe and CliniScape mobile point of care devices.
Industry News | Friday, March 05 2010
In February, the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging expanded the Image Gently radiation dose initiative from CT and interventional radiology to computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) exams by hosting a Digital Radiography Summit at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.
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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.
