July 22, 2010 – Changes included in the final rules governing the meaningful use objectives for Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs for electronic health records (EHRs) will improve the odds that more providers can qualify for government stimulus funding.
July 22, 2010 – D3 Radiation Services recently announced that the American Board of Radiology (ABR) has qualified eDataAudit—a new service designed to reduce errors in the delivery of radiation therapy—as a Practice Quality Improvement (PQI) for the purpose of Maintenance of Certification (MOC).
July 22, 2010 – A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) advanced image analysis and workflow suite for breast, prostate and other organs was recently released to simplify and streamline case review. The iCAD Inc.
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July 22, 2010 -- The first half of 2010 has seen greatly increased activity in the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) market. According to Wayne DeJarnette, Ph.D., president of DeJarnette Research Systems Inc., the company has witnessed a significant increase in all activities related to the company’s xDLTM, Vendor Neutral Archive product offering.
July 21, 2010 – Imaging facilities looking to convert existing analog X-ray rooms to digital can now adopt the FDR D-EVO flat-panel cassette, which recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDR D-EVO from Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc.
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July 21, 2010 – While four in 10 clinicians use frameless radiosurgery exclusively to treat cranial indications, user data collected at the 5th International Conference of the Novalis Circle, held last month in Munich, Germany, shows that there are still significant opportunities to increase utilization of the effective treatment approach.
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July 21, 2010 – CIVCO Medical Solutions this week announced the first installation of the Protura Robotic Patient Positioning System at Agnesian HealthCare in Fond du Lac, Wis. Michael Vander Kooy, M.D., a board-certified radiation oncologist with Agnesian HealthCare’s Central Wisconsin Cancer Program (CWCP), said the new system helps the CWCP to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care.
July 21, 2010 – The newly released Amira 5.3 advanced visualization software includes a comprehensive set of tools for neuroscience research, specifically magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) as well as computed tomography (CT) and MR brain perfusion imaging.
July 21, 2010 – The Advancing Patient Safety Coalition sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month, urging the agency to immediately issue rules on unique device identification (UDI), which have been three years in the making.
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July 21, 2010 – A new version of a multimodality treatment planning system for brachytherapy and external beam treatment offers several features to increase planning speed and improve plan accuracy. Nucletron announced the upcoming release of Oncentra v4.0 at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting this week.
July 20, 2010 – Rcadia Medical Imaging recently presented five studies demonstrating the potential of its COR Analyzer System to help rule out significant coronary artery stenosis in patients at low to intermediate risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing coronary computer tomography angiography (CTA).
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July 20, 2010 – New dual source CT technology allows a radiation dose of as low as one millisievert (mSv) for computed tomography angiography (CTA) scans, Siemens announced last week at the 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in Las Vegas.
July 20, 2010 – InfraScan announced this week that it has signed a $2 million contract with the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy to develop a next-generation version of the company’s Infrascanner brain hematoma detector.
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July 20, 2010 – IBA Dosimetry will showcase its latest innovation in radiation therapy commissioning solutions, the Blue Phantom[2] water phantom equipped with advanced Linear Diode Array technology (LDA-99SC) at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this week.
July 20, 2010 – Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have developed a way to reduce the amount of radiation involved in perfusion computed tomography (CT) scanning, an emerging imaging technology for diagnosing strokes and cancer, following an incident last year when a machine set to incorrect radiation levels overdosed hundreds of people in Los Angeles.
July 20, 2010 – DeJarnette Research Systems Inc. announced this week that it has been awarded a patent covering automated anatomical body part recognition.
Biodex Medical Systems demonstrated its new Atomlab 500 Plus system at the 2010 Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting. The system combines a dose calibrator, quality assurance calibrator and wipe test counter for radiopharmacies, medical physicists and nuclear imaging specialists.
July 20, 2010 – Siemens recently announced it is enhancing its digital radiography (DR) product with new software that takes existing chest X-rays and suppresses the ribs and clavicles to improve visibility of soft tissue structures of the lungs.
July 19, 2010 – New, integrated software solutions from Siemens designed to assist in radiation therapy planning and treatment will be demonstrated during the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting this week in Philadelphia.