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Carestream is sponsoring an executive panel discussion at the HIMSS 2014 meeting, Feb. 25, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 202C at the Orlando Convention Center. The title is “Executive Perspective: How to Achieve Efficient Enterprise Data Management” and the session is open to all HIMSS attendees. Jennifer Horowitz, Senior Director of Research for HIMSS Analytics, will be the moderator.
February 17, 2014 
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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) published a consensus guideline on margins for breast-conserving surgery with whole-breast irradiation in stages I and II invasive breast cancer. The guideline document represents an intensive collaboration among experts in the radiation oncology and surgical oncology fields, led by Meena S. Moran, M.D., associate professor of the department of therapeutic radiology at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., on behalf of ASTRO, and Monica Morrow, M.D., SSO immediate past president, breast cancer surgeon and chief of breast surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, co-chairs of the Margin Consensus Panel (MCP). In addition to determining the ideal margin width that minimizes the risk of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR), the guideline outlines an evidence-based surgical treatment path that could reduce unnecessary surgery for patients.
February 13, 2014 
Technology
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, will make available at HIMSS13 Annual Conference & Exhibition the UpToDate. Anywhere. The product enables healthcare enterprises to improve patient care by equipping clinicians with anytime/anywhere access to comprehensive, evidence-based, clinical decision support through the UpToDate mobile app.
February 13, 2014 Sponsored Content
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The AT Group LLC, Booth 7384 within the First Time Exhibitor Pavilion, is featuring its portfolio companies, including MatrixView and its PACStream Solution at HIMSS.
February 13, 2014 Blog
By Melinda Taschetta-Millane, editorial director With the theme of “Innovation. Impact. Outcomes. Onward,” HIMSS14, the annual conference and exhibition of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, will hold its annual event February 23-27, 2014, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.
February 12, 2014 Sponsored Content
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Annual screening in women aged 40-59 does not reduce mortality from breast cancer beyond that of physical examination or usual care, concludes a 25-year study from Canada published on bmj.com.
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Research from the University of Iowa supports the claim that tele-emergency services can extend emergency care in rural hospitals. The study was published in the February edition of Health Affairs. Tele-emergency is the urgent care component of telehealth, services consisting of diagnosis, treatment, assessment, monitoring, communications and education of medical conditions via digital technologies like videoconferencing. Telehealth can deliver important medical services where they are needed most, and remove barriers of time, distance and limited health care providers. This includes remote, rural areas and medically underserved urban communities.
February 11, 2014 
Technology
Digisonics showcased OB 4.8for its OB/GYN PACS and structured reporting system at the 2014 Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La. The Digisonics system is standards-based and vendor-neutral, combining DICOM image review, structured reporting, an integrated clinical database and PACS image archive into one solution for OB/GYN studies.
February 11, 2014 
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Carestream showcased upgrades to its healthcare IT portfolio at HIMSS 2014. Included are Carestream Vue PACS and Vue for Vendor Neutral Archive with a Windows environment and 64-bit Intel Xeon servers that can help enhance performance while reducing costs.
February 10, 2014 Sponsored Content
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New imaging technology from University of Washington engineers allows scientists to analyze what happens within the smallest blood vessels during an injection. This finding could be used to prevent accidents during procedures and help clinicians reverse ill effects if an injection doesn't go as planned.
February 10, 2014 
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The ViewRay system, a MRI-guided radiation therapy system, is being used to treat patients at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. The ViewRay system provides a combination of simultaneous radiation therapy delivery and continuous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the treatment of cancer.
February 10, 2014 
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Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) met Jan. 21 with executives from Gamma Medica to discuss the Breast Density and Mammography Reporting Act. Kuster recently cosponsored the bill in an effort to promote better breast cancer detection and prevention, and to help provide women with the tools to make informed health decisions.
February 10, 2014 Sponsored Content
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Fluke Biomedical, a manufacturer of biomedical test instruments, acquired Unfors RaySafe. Unfors RaySafe produces quality assurance devices for diagnostic x-ray including real time dose monitoring systems for medical personnel and patient dose tracking software solutions.
February 10, 2014 
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Adults with low-grade gliomas who received a chemotherapy regimen following completion of radiation therapy lived longer than patients who received radiation therapy alone. This is according to long-term follow-up results from a National Institutes of Health-supported randomized controlled clinical trial.
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Feature | Dave Fornell
Better management of X-ray radiation doses starts with recording and tracking each exposure patients receive. Dose tracking has come to the forefront of medicine in recent years with the realization that medical imaging has doubled the public’s exposure to ionizing radiation since the 1980s, largely due to the rapid expansion of computed tomography (CT) and minimally invasive procedures guided by angiography.
February 10, 2014 News
Samsung Electronics America launched Samsung Financial Solutions, focused on facilitating funding and acquisition of capital equipment for its Health and Medical Equipment (HME) unit within the Enterprise Business Division.
February 10, 2014 News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an updated Mammography Quality Standards Act and Program (MQSA) Scorecard, which offers answers to the most commonly requested national statistics regarding the MQSA program. These statistics are updated on the first of each month.
February 10, 2014 Feature
A contrast MRI can predict which heart patients with atrial fibrillation are most likely to benefit from catheter ablation, according to a multi-center study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
February 10, 2014 
Feature | Raissa Rocha
Advancements in technologies are paving the way for many healthcare providers to connect with patients outside their hospitals more quickly and efficiently. For cardiology departments, technologies that allow for video collaboration, rapid transmission of scans and images and other forms of telemedicine are supporting the initiative to improve productivity, an initiative many are striving for as the U.S. healthcare landscape continues reform.
February 07, 2014 
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At Johnston Medical Center in Smithfield N.C., StatVideo’s EchoCart streams real-time images of babies’ hearts and live video conferencing over the web to pediatric cardiologists at Duke Children’s Hospital. EchoCart is a telemedicine system designed specifically for tele-echocardiography.
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