Sharon Gibbs, director of the radiology department at VCU Health in Richmond, Va., aims to provide quality, timely and efficient care. To do so, she must define, analyze and track the metrics and quality needs of her large care providing team, which consists of more than 40 faculty radiologists, over 200 technologists and numerous other stakeholders.
The PACS — picture archiving and communication systems — have been in existence for more than 45 years. One of the first was created in 1972 by Richard J. Steckel, M.D., and the large-scale introduction occurred 10 years later at the University of Kansas. In the early ’90s, U.K. physician Harold Glass, M.D., pioneered the use of PACS to transform London’s Hammersmith Hospital into the first filmless hospital in the United Kingdom.
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Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
At SIIM 2018, Alexander J. Towbin, M.D., Radiologist, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Neil D. Johnson Chair of Radiology Informatics, Associate Chief of Radiology Informatics, at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, discusses the meaning of patient engagement and describes some of the patient engagement initiatives that that he has seen successfully implemented in various practices.
Nuclear imaging and its various modalities have long played an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous ...
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Last November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance for medical imaging vendors on the ...
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For smokers and former smokers, the threat of lung cancer always lurks in the shadows. To flush it out of the darkness ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a proposed order to reclassify certain radiological medical image analyzers, or computer-aided detection (CAD) devices, from class III to class II devices. This includes CAD devices for mammography breast cancer, ultrasound breast lesions and radiograph lung nodules.
Members of Beaumont Health’s proton therapy team presented research on a new treatment for patients with lung cancer at the recent European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) 37 Congress, April 20-24 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Intelerad Medical Systems announced the release of InteleOne Maestro, its new enterprise imaging workflow orchestration solution.
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. will introduce a new worklist feature, Turn-Around-Time (TAT), for its Exa platform at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), May 31-June 2 in National Harbor, Md. The new feature is designed to provide customers with flexibility and simplicity through a customizable workflow engine and an intelligent worklist.
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An updated American Cancer Society guideline says colorectal cancer screening should begin at age 45 for people at average risk. The recommendation is based in part on data showing rates of colorectal cancer are increasing in young and middle-aged populations.
U.S.-based Softek Illuminate and the entrepreneurial French firm Medexprim will be combining, distributing and supporting each other’s product offerings as a unified solution for hospital researchers interested in exploiting previously unstructured clinical and image databases. The two companies will be featuring the other’s solutions at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, May 31-June 2 in National Harbor, Md.
A team of researchers including investigators from Mayo Clinic has identified a technology to address the problem of false positives in computed tomography (CT)-based lung cancer screening. The team’s findings are published in the current issue of PLOS One.
A Loyola Medicine study has found that new ultrasound guidelines can reliably identify pediatric patients who should be biopsied for thyroid cancer.
Intelerad Medical Systems announced the launch of its artificial intelligence (AI) initiative along with the expansion of its partnership with Blackford to offer Blackford Platform, a single platform to access and manage multiple medical image analysis applications.
Many say it is very difficult or impossible to go through the large volumes of data to pick out what is clinically ...