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ACR Says NEJM Article on Ending Breast Cancer Screening Programs is Incomplete, Should Concern Women
The American College of Radiology (ACR) and Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) agree with statements by Andorno and Jüni, in their recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), that women need clear information with which to discuss mammography with their doctor.
May 07, 2014 
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The American College of Radiology said it is deeply disappointed at the failure of the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) to vote in support of national Medicare coverage of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening for patients at high risk for lung cancer.
May 07, 2014 
Technology
GE Healthcare received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Discovery IGS 740, a new rail-free mobile angiography system with a 41x41 cm detector.
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The past year saw the release of several new, innovative technologies to improve nuclear imaging in both positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).
May 06, 2014 
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April 6, 2014 — iCAD, a provider of advanced image analysis, workflow solutions and radiation therapy, reported it has entered into an agreement effective April 28, 2014, that terminates the revenue-sharing component of iCAD’s debt facility agreement with Deerfield Management Company LP, dated Dec. 29, 2011, in exchange for a cash payment of $4.1 million to Deerfield.
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May 6, 2014 — DICOM Grid is expanding its cloud portfolio with new hybrid image management solutions at the 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Long Beach, Calif.
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May 6, 2014 — Medtronic announced the first U.S. implant of the Evera MRI SureScan implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system, following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its investigational device exemption (IDE) application and pivotal clinical trial protocol.
May 06, 2014 
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May 6, 2014 — Siemens Healthcare announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Artis one angiography system, optimized for broad clinical utilization. The Artis one is designed for routine interventions, including revascularizations of peripheral vessel occlusions, functional tests of dialysis shunts in patients with kidney failure, diagnostic or minimally invasive angiographic treatment of narrowed coronary arteries, and pacemaker implantations.
May 06, 2014 Blog
As an editor attending clinical symposiums and always on the lookout for new trends in technology, I sometimes find myself wondering if what I see is actually the reality on the ground for most clinicians. A recent example of this has been the implementation and use of clinical decision support (CDS) software to ensure physicians are following appropriate use criteria (AUC).
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Devicor Medical Products Inc. acquired HydroMARK breast biopsy marker portfolio and related assets from Biopsy Sciences LLC.
May 06, 2014 
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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is concerned by the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee’s (MEDCAC) April 30, 2014 recommendation to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that adults at high risk for lung cancer should not receive Medicare coverage of annual, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening.
May 06, 2014 
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GE and the PGA Tour have announced the addition of a new portable ultrasound system to the Visionworks Mobile Health & Fitness Trailers on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.
May 05, 2014 Sponsored Content
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The first clinical mARC treatment, planned with RaySearch’s treatment planning system RayStation, has been delivered at Europe Hospitals in Brussels, Belgium.
May 05, 2014 
Technology
Kubtec, a leader in innovation for digital specimen radiography, announced its development of TomoView, a groundbreaking tomosynthesis technology for digital specimen radiography of excised breast tissue. The company’s patent-pending technology allows for multi-planar x-ray imaging for thorough margin analysis of excised breast tissue and is the core foundation on which Kubtec’s upcoming system release, MOZART, is based.
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SIIM 2014: The 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will take place May 15-17, 2014, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. The meeting promises to deliver leading-edge content and practical solutions for the imaging informatics challenges the industry is currently facing. Meeting highlights will include cutting-edge healthcare IT, IIP career development, peer-to-peer learning, interactive sessions, daily virtual sessions, industry highlights and more.
May 02, 2014 
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Analogic Corp. has entered into a distribution agreement with D&K Technologies, developer of the BioJet Solution, a revolutionary 3-D magnetic resonance imagining (MRI) transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) fusion technology.
May 02, 2014 
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May 2, 2014 — The University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht and Quirem Medical, both in the Netherlands, announced they will be working closely together to maximize the benefits of using holmium microspheres to treat liver cancer patients worldwide. The unique properties of holmium microspheres will enable effective treatment planning and dosimetry in treatment evaluation, thereby further improving the results of patients who undergo radioembolization.
May 02, 2014 News
Anxiety regarding inconclusive test results is real and is only natural. Experts in breast imaging (researchers and clinicians) continue to work to reduce the number of false-positive exams that patients experience and ensure that follow-up exams are as minimally invasive as possible.
May 02, 2014 News
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) exhibited at the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) Internal Medicine 2014 meeting in early April as part of the society’s efforts to spread the word about the appropriate use of cardiac imaging tests.
May 02, 2014 
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May 2, 2014 — A new study has found that children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have disrupted connections between different areas of the brain that are evident on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rfMRI). The results of this research are published online in the journal Radiology.
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