September 8, 2017 — Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc. announced that the SoftVue Discover Breast Ultrasound ...
September 8, 2017 — Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. recently introduced support for DICOM web services, including ...
The new Visicoil MR is a helically-wound, flexible linear fiducial marker. The Visicoil MR hollow core design and ...
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
Last year, our health system ranked dead last among those of 11 developed nations (including France, Germany, Great Britain and Canada) in calculations done by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that specializes in the analysis of healthcare. This despite seven years of expanded access to healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.”
Edward Hospital & Health Services is a full-service, regional healthcare provider offering sophisticated medical specialties. It is located in the western suburbs of Chicago, with two main campuses in Naperville and Plainfield, plus outpatient facilities and physician offices throughout the region.
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While mammograms play a vital role in efforts to identify breast cancer, they can present some challenges in women with dense breast tissue. Both dense breast tissue and cancer cells can appear as solid white in mammography, increasing the risk that results might be misinterpreted. Some recent advances in both technology and in communications about breast density have the potential to help clinicians and patients overcome these challenges in the years ahead.
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By definition, distributed radiology, or Teleradiology 3.0, is the progressive step in transforming mutual exclusivity of onsite radiology practice and teleradiology outsourcing into a seamless radiology distribution model. By extending deeply into acute and ambulatory health systems, distributed radiology utilizes data fluidity to provide rapid diagnostic interpretation regardless of exam origin or physician location.
As one of the more precise methods of delivering radiation therapy for cancer treatment, proton therapy has grown at a rapid pace the last several years. Considered experimental not too long ago and used primarily in research settings, clinicians across the globe are rapidly coming to accept the utility of proton therapy for numerous indications — a list that many expect to continue to grow rapidly.
Continuing education and training are essential in the healthcare industry. Physicians are required to earn a certain number of continuing medical education credits to maintain license registration, and radiologic technologists must earn a certain number of continuing education credits to maintain American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification and registration.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
Cancer is perhaps the most highly personal, complex disease in our world today. While the various types of cancer are ...
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands. The hospital provides world-class patient care and is engaged in cutting-edge scientific research and medical education. UMCG is a leading cancer center and will soon open a new state-of-the-art proton therapy center.
The ITN team recently attended the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA)’s 45th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Anaheim, Calif., where nearly 1,000 members, vendors and presenters came together to learn and network. We learned from the three nationally renowned keynote speakers, more than 100 breakout sessions and from the new technology showcased in the exhibit hall by 160 different companies.
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
Patient X-ray radiation exposure from medical imaging has been a hot topic in radiology and has prompted the implementation of radiation dose monitoring systems. Prior to these systems, dose measurements either were not tracked or required manual calculation of dose based on scanner data in the DICOM headers.
September 7, 2017 — Sapheneia and Scannerside received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to ...
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it would hold a meeting of the Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee (MIDAC) on Sept. 8 to discuss regulatory approaches for use of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs).
As one of the largest outpatient neurological centers in the United States, Dent Neurologic Institute performs 120 MRI ...
September 7, 2017 — Median Technologies announced that it will lead a scientific and medical roundtable on Sept. 7 in ...
September 7, 2017 — Advanced melanoma has a poor prognosis, but immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy can be effective for ...
Regional One Health (Memphis, Tenn.) has implemented Carestream Health’s Clinical Collaboration Platform that includes enterprise imaging, vendor-neutral archiving and Vue Motion universal viewer.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared TrueFusion, a new cardiovascular application from Siemens Healthineers that integrates ultrasound and angiography to guide cardiac teams when administering treatment for structural heart disease. Available on the new Release 5.0 of the Acuson SC2000 cardiovascular ultrasound system, TrueFusion is designed to maximize not only interventional cardiology procedures, but also routine diagnosis and follow-up of patients with structural heart disease.