Is it time for you to replace your picture archiving and communication system (PACS)? Do you need a better solution? Our saturated market still has forces that raise this question across providers of all shapes and sizes. Legacy system deficiencies, disparate specialty PACS, the need to leverage a PACS for enterprise imaging, or even fearing the arc of success or failure of a current vendor can have those at system-level administration all the way to executive leadership wondering what path forward will provide the most stable, robust and competitive solution.
In establishing the new Southeast Cancer Center (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), clinic officials not only had the opportunity to offer the latest care technology and evidence-based therapies, they were also able to create a seamless, positive patient experience that supports patient healing. Essential to implementing this vision was a single, unified and universal care management system (Mosaiq OIS by Elekta) that provides all members of the multidisciplinary team the information they need, at the moment they need it, to care for every patient.
Thirty-three. Twenty-nine. Sixty-four. These are the ages of the breast cancer patients who have walked through the Provision Cares Proton Therapy Center in Knoxville, Tenn. With decades of life ahead of them, they face a cure that could be worse than their disease.
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Carestream Health will demonstrate its new zero footprint Workflow Orchestrator that can enable greater productivity, quality and collaboration for radiology reading workflows at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Nov. 26-Dec. 1 in Chicago. These modules are currently available for order and are expected to begin shipping in the first quarter of 2018.
November 3, 2017 — A new study published in PLOS ONE demonstrates that Videssa Breast, a multi-protein biomarker blood ...
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As healthcare in the United States shifts focus to providing higher-quality care while keeping costs down, workflow efficiency is a guiding bedrock principle for providers. From this standpoint, few technologies have demonstrated greater promise for maximizing clinical and operational efficiency than mobile digital radiography (DR). Putting digital X-ray capability onto a mobile cart-based system allows healthcare facilities to bring the radiology department directly to the patient, allowing faster diagnosis, and in turn quicker exam turnaround and discharge times. As the the technology continues to evolve, vendors have focused on improving battery life, durability and wireless connectivity to further maximize the utility of these versatile systems.
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November 3, 2017 — The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently welcomed the organization ...
November 3, 2017 — Mach7 Technologies invites attendees at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual ...
The following is a roundup of a few of the major advances in ultrasound imaging technology over the last 12 months.
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Computed tomography (CT) continues to be a workhorse modality for radiology departments and its utility keeps expanding. Below are just a few of the ways CT applications have expanded in the last 12 months.
November 3, 2017 — Altamont Software Inc. this week completed implementation of CaptureWare at Quantum Imaging and ...
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At the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 26-Dec. 1 in Chicago, Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. will introduce new functionalities including Performance Dashboards on the Exa Enterprise Imaging solution. Other recent enhancements to the Exa platform include non-DICOM data viewing capabilities and a customized workflow engine.
Young hockey players who have suffered concussions may still show changes in the white matter of the brain months after being cleared to return to play, researchers at Western University have found. These findings were achieved through use of sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques.
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November 2, 2017 — Based on its recent analysis of the mobile interventional X-ray solutions market, Frost & Sullivan ...
Hologic Inc. announced that it will provide all mammography systems for the Dutch Breast Cancer Screening Program in partnership with Tromp Medical, Hologic’s distributor in the Netherlands. Under the tender, Hologic’s new 3Dimensions mammography systems will be installed in mobile and stationary screening facilities across the country, starting in 2018.
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, recently became the first U.S. healthcare institution to install the Magnetom Vida 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner from Siemens Healthineers. The scanner features new BioMatrix technology that addresses patients’ anatomical and physiological differences as well as user variability.
As a 515-bed full-service healthcare facility, Adventist Health Glendale (AHGL) fully understands the importance of efficiency and productivity — from acquisition and processing to study analysis and diagnosis. When Adventist Health Glendale recognized the inefficiencies in its study processing workflow, a progressive technical solution was sought to save time, money and resources, all while maintaining the highest patient care. Ziostation2’s Automatic Preprocessing proved to be the advanced visualization platform to take their processing workflows to the next level of efficiency.
Physicians from across the country gathered in Chicago last week to discuss the most recent advances in proton therapy at the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group – North America (PTCOG‐NA) meeting. During the meeting, two important abstracts were presented that addressed concerns about higher costs for proton therapy and delays in payer coverage for pediatric patients.
James A. Brink, M.D., FACR, chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors, met with the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Energy to urge more research on low-dose medical radiation effects to inform future safety practices. He also told the Committee that medical imaging and radiation oncology save lives.