Community Health Centers (CHCs) across the country, which are the medical home for one in 15 people in the United States, are experiencing an overall increase in patients but fewer uninsured patients in 2014, according to a survey conducted by Direct Relief at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) annual conference last week. ?

September 8, 2014 — Mevion Medical Systems announced that MedStar Georgetown University Hospital has received final approval to begin construction of the first proton therapy center in Washington, D.C., at its Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

In community-based radiology practice, mammography screening with 3-D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) yielded lower recall rates, an increased overall cancer detection rate and an increased detection rate for invasive cancer compared with 2-D digital mammography (DM).

To support its humanitarian work the Field Hospital of the Portuguese army opted for the OR technology mobile complete X-ray solution, the Amadeo M-DRw with wireless flat panel detector.

Telemis announced another record year of trading with revenues increasing by more than 6 percent.

September 4, 2014 — Isis Innovation, the technology transfer arm at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and the Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization (CIMTEC) in Canada have announced a partnership to jointly develop and test a new enhanced ultrasound imaging technology.

September 4, 2014 — Based on its recent analysis of the breast imaging solutions market, Frost & Sullivan recognized Volpara Solutions with the 2014 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership.