April 16, 2009- Royal Philips Electronics launched a new product bundle that combines the Philips Digital Voice Tracer 660 (DVT 660) recording device and the voice recorder edition of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, a speech recognition program from Nuance Communications.
April 16, 2009 – iCAD Inc. today announced it has received 510(k) clearance for PrecisionPoint, the company’s interventional planning solution for breast MRI that can make biopsies easier and faster. PrecisionPoint will be offered as an integrated module within the company’s CADvue breast MRI image review software.
April 16, 2009 - The ACR and RBMA have developed best practice guidelines for third-party payors, managed care organizations (MCOs), radiology benefit managers (RBMs), and imaging providers for use when implementing or evaluating a Radiology Benefits Management Program (RBMP).
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April 15, 2009 – IASIS Healthcare LLC, a 16-hospital system headquartered in Franklin, TN, plans to help improve patient care and physician satisfaction with the deployment of a new PACS from McKesson.
April 16, 2009 – In a policy statement released today, The European Association of Urology (EAU) said current data on prostate cancer is insufficient to recommend the adoption of population screening for prostate cancer as a public health policy due to the large over-treatment effect.
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April 16, 2009 - Varian Medical Systems Inc. is featuring its line of PaxScan flat panel X-ray image detectors for digital radiography (DR) at the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF 2009) meeting in Shenzhen, China, April 18-21, 2009. Varian will also showcase its full range of X-ray tubes for fluoroscopy, angiography, cardiology and cone-beam CT imaging.
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April 15, 2009 - The results of the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetes (DIAD) study, released in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) screening for coronary artery disease (CAD) in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes did not result in a significant reduction in the rate of heart attacks and death compared to
April 15, 2009 - CIVCO Medical Solutions released a disposable endocavity needle guidance system for use with ZONARE’s E9-4 transducer.
BRIT Systems’ BRIT Speak is a stand-alone dictation, transcription, report distribution and optional voice recognition solution that uses the latest Web technologies. BRIT Speak provides real-time workflow across a virtual environment with minimal user intervention and is available with the company’s Roentgen RIS and Roentgen Works remote reading solution.
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Konica Minolta Medical Imaging’s FlexDR is an upright, flat panel digital radiography system. The FDA-cleared FlexDR features an Amorphous Silicon (aSi) and Cesium Iodide (CsI) receptor that boasts ultrahigh detective quantum efficiency (DQE) for high-quality images even with minimum X-ray exposure. The product will be available for sale in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009.
April 15, 2009 - Based on its recent analysis of the U.S. PET and PET/CT markets, Frost & Sullivan awarded Zecotek Photonics Inc. with its 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology.
April 15, 2009 - Scranton Gillette Communications, located in Arlington Heights, IL, has agreed to acquire the assets of Imaging Technology News and Diagnostic & Invasive Cardiology from Reilly Communications Group, located in Schaumburg, IL. Imaging Technology News provides technology solutions for medical imaging and radiation oncology professionals with a circulation of 35,000.
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April 15, 2009 - Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have shown that they can determine after a single cycle of chemotherapy whether the drugs are killing the cancer or not using a PET/CT scanner.
April 15, 2009 - SNM is making history by becoming the first medical association in America to launch a “virtual march” on Capitol Hill to raise awareness among policymakers about the benefits of molecular imaging with the goal of ensuring that patients have access to medical imaging such as PET/CT and SPECT/CT. It takes three steps to join the march: 1. Go to www.MIMarchforHealth.org.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. needs to reform its healthcare system if it is to fulfill its Medicare obligations and for American companies to stay competitive in the world economy. Greenspan was a keynote speaker during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference April 8 in Chicago.
April 14, 2009 – MedCurrent Corp. today released a new version of its MedCurrent Verify, a Web-based insurance eligibility verification tool.
April 14, 2009 – Bienville Orthopaedic specialists in Ocean Springs, MS, and Mountain Valley Orthopedics in East Stroudsburg, PA. selected NovaRad’s NovaPACS for its affordability and the availability of integrated orthopedic trauma tools and templates.
April 14, 2009 - Abstract submissions are due on May 11, 2009, for the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC 2009), which will be held from Sep. 23-26 in Montreal. The current rate of submission suggests that WMIC 2009 will receive more abstracts than for WMIC 2008. The group is using a new submission system, Abstract Central, a ScholarOne product.
Gammex’s new 464-ACTS automated CT software is designed to provide automated data analysis for the ACR accreditation CT Phantom 464. The software will reportedly help medical physicists significantly reduce their time spent analyzing the results of the scan by providing results in report form which will allow the physicist to simplify and speed up the quality control process.
April 14, 2009 – Virtual Radiologic Corp. gained FDA clearance for its vRad PACS solution. Virtual Radiologic, a teleradiolgy company, will roll out the software to its affiliated radiologists over the next several months, gradually replacing the commercial software it currently licenses.