As cutting-edge technologies collide with innovative treatments, a hybrid approach is emerging as the best path of action. In recent years, hospitals across the globe have reacted to the “blurring of the lines” between interventional and surgical procedures by installing suites that can accommodate an integrated treatment plan.
March 2, 2010 — A provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions will demonstrate the benefits of a virtualized RIS/PACS environment using solutions from VMware, a virtualization technology, during HIMSS 2010.
March 2, 2010 – Cardiac enhancements to ensure the highest image quality at lower radiation doses are among the new software upgrades released this week for the Aquilion ONE CT system.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
March 2, 2010 – To better integrate technologies that will yield faster delivery of meaningful health information, Microsoft Corp. and Philips Healthcare are collaborating to improve clinical decision support offerings and reduce development and infrastructure costs.
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March 1, 2010 — A breakthrough needle guidance system that expands real-time image-guided navigation into a new dimmension will debut during the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Annual Scientific Meeting, taking place in Atlanta on March 13-18, 2010.
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March 1, 2010 - To meet the growing clinical demand to lower radiation dose during cardiac computed tomography (CT) scans, while still maintaining the same image quality, has caused imaging equipment manufacturers to look to information technology (IT) for solutions.
March 1, 2010 - How is portal-driven technology setting new standards for customizable, role-based, context-sensitive, and knowledge-driven radiology workflow? Software solutions providers would like to know.
March 1, 2010 - Getting current and past medication history assembled and ready in case of emergencies is one of the strongest value propositions for using an online personal health records (PHR), according to data from Google Health.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
March 1, 2010 - Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin landed for a meet-and-greet, one-hour photo opportunity session for media at Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 in Atlanta.
March 1, 2010 - “Meaningful use” is poised to be the major driver of healthcare information technology (IT) spending in 2010, in addition to other supporting factors, such as recovering economy, suggests results of the 21st Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Leadership Survey.
March 1, 2010 - By empowering healthcare organizations to automatically extract unstructured clinical documentation, healthcare organizations will increase the amount of meaningful data that can be used for clinical decision making, leading to improved patient care and a reduction in overall healthcare costs.
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
February 28, 2010 - SIIM, which has served as a co-sponsor organization for the HIMSS annual meeting, will hold an educational seminar "Integrating Medical Images and the EHR," to help healthcare facilities prepare for the next wave of government legislation, requiring an interoperable nationwide health information system.
February 28, 2010 - Patients expressed a statistically significant preference for the taste of iohexol over diatrozoate, a feature that is especially beneficial for very ill patients whom have trouble tolerating the taste of contrast agents, concluded a recent study.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
February 26, 2010 - Beginning in 2012, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) will require accreditation of ambulatory care facilities that bill Medicare for advanced imaging exams (MR, CT, PET and nuclear medicine exams). However, MIPPA does not apply to hospital providers of these services and does not include radiation therapy.
Februrary 26, 2010 - The American College of Radiology's (ACR) Task Force on Radiation Dose in Medicine urged Congress to require accreditation of all facilities that bill Medicare for advanced medical imaging and radiation oncology services, including those in hospitals, to reduce the likelihood of adverse patient events and help assure a baseline quality of care nationwide.
February 26, 2010 - A December 2009 study in The American Journal of Surgery cites that overall 53 percent of trauma transfer patients receive duplicate imaging exams at an average cost of nearly $3,000 per patient.
February 26, 2010 – During ACC 2010 Agfa HealthCare will showcase IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions for cardiology at booth 1833.
February 26, 2010 – Diagnostic medical imaging applications and cardio PACS solutions maker TomTec is participating for the first time at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 exposition, exhibiting its multimodality CPACS solution Image-Arena.
February 26, 2010 - Gadolinium-based contrast agents, the most common contrast agents used for MRA, have been directly linked to nephrogenic systemic fibrosis or nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy (NSF/NFD) a sometimes fatal skin disease that occurs in patients with renal insufficiency.