September 29, 2009 - At the upcoming 81st American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit, Siemens Healthcare will showcase three of its health information technology solutions designed to help providers build and maintain a comprehensive Electronic Health Record: Soarian Clinicals, Soarian Enterprise Document Management and Soarian Quality Measures.
September 29, 2009 – PACSGEAR, a provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities, announced that Birmingham Women's Hospital in Birmingham, UK, has become its 1200th customer site.
September 28, 2009 - GE Healthcare and Biosense Webster Inc. announced new versions of the Vivid i and Vivid q cardiovascular ultrasound systems, with support for two new intracardiac echo (ICE) catheters.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
September 28, 2009 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality plans to provide $100 million in stimulus funding in the coming fiscal year to support studies of the effectiveness of treatments and diagnostics, including personalized healthcare approaches, such as pharmacogenetics, clinical diagnostics, and bio-imaging studies.
September 25, 2009 - Intelerad Medical Systems, a PACS solution vendor, bolsters its PACS market presence with new contract signings and installations in the U.S., Canada and Australia. In the United States, new IntelePACS clients include St. Vincent General Hospital District of Leadville, Colorado and Colorado Springs Health Partners, P.C.
SPONSORED CONTENT — Fujifilm’s latest CT technology brings exceptional image quality to a compact and user- and patient ...
September 25, 2009 - Cancer physicians and cancer care advocates applauded a bipartisan letter led by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday urging that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) spare life-saving radiation oncology services from a major Medicare funding cut proposed for diagnostic i
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September 25, 2009 - Nearly of 300 of the world’s leading researchers focused on the problem of prostate cancer will begin a three-day meeting today to discuss the latest scientific data and breakthroughs in prostate cancer. The meeting, held in Incline Village at Lake Tahoe in Nevada, is the 16th Scientific Retreat sponsored by the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF).
September 25, 2009 - The Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation recently received a $1 million planned-gift donation to create a future scholarship fund for interventional radiology fellows to pursue this medical profession.
September 23, 2009 - After offering an amendment to close the in-office ancillary services exception for advanced medical imaging under the Stark law during the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s continued markup of H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) withdrew the offer.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
September 23, 2009 – Virtual Radiologic Corp., a leading global provider of teleradiology services, will exhibit at the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) Critical Access Hospital Conference to be held October 7-9, 2009 in Portland, Ore.
September 23, 2009 - First lady Michelle Obama urged women to push for health reform, saying that President Obama's plan would help achieve "true equality" for women, in a speech at a private event last Friday.
The Naviscan PEM scanner is an optimized PET scanner designed to provide unprecedented metabolic visualization of small body parts. Through a unique combination of gentle immobilization, advanced photonics and image processing, the scanner provides 3-D tomographic images with resolution down to 2 mm.
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
Certegra’s Connect.PACS™ application makes available new and more complete information to better inform decision making. The application instantly integrates each patient’s CT contrast injection record with the associated clinical image sets stored in PACS. Connect.PACS automates recordkeeping, facilitates Joint Commission compliance and reduces manual records discrepancies.
P3T products automate protocol personalization and consistently enable improved contrast enhancement for higher quality images for CT angiography and abdominal studies. P3T Cardiac enhances CT angiography of cardiac structures, coronary arteries, chambers of the heart, thoracic and abdominal aorta, and pulmonary vasculature for pulmonary embolism (PE) studies.
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The ACCUVIX V20 ‘Prestige’ by MEDISON, combines a 19-inch flat-panel display, set on an articulating arm for operator convenience and high-resolution images. The ‘Prestige’ ultrasound imaging system represents the pinnacle of more than a decade of technological advancement in 3D/4D ultrasound imaging at MEDISON.
With 165 new enhancements, MedInformatix Version 7.0 RIS is sure to satisfy any Radiologists’ need for productivity. The MedInformatix RIS Interfaces to your choice of PACS system, and a wide range of HIS and Lab Systems through HL7, giving you the freedom to choose the product that best fit your needs.
LEAD Technologies, Inc. is the publisher of LEADTOOLS, imaging components for developers.
September 23, 2009 - At the 2009 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in Montreal, Royal Philips Electronics and Bruker BioSpin, a division of Bruker Corp., today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of magnetic particle imaging (MPI) scanners, a new imaging technology, for the preclinical market.
Intelerad Medical Systems has announced the latest IntelePACS enhancements and new modules it will preview at RSNA 2009.
New in its OEM product lineup, InfiMed has completed development of its i5 Platform and launched its new Digital Radiography and RF/DSA imaging system products. Based upon the highly acclaimed and industry leading Platinum One product line, the new i5 Platform features sophisticated image processing and integrated, on screen generator control.