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All of the questions surrounding the stimulus funding and what “meaningful use” really means is enough to give anyone a HITECH headache. On June 16, the Meaningful Use Workgroup released the definition of “meaningful use” in the “Meaningful Use Matrix.”* I thought they wanted to reduce redundancy. The definition included medical imaging in a couple of places.
July 23, 2009 
News
July 23, 2009 - The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) is changing its name to World Health Imaging, Telemedicine and Informatics Alliance (WHITIA) and expanding its mission to include bringing access to highly-trained medical professionals and the use of health informatics to help improve healthcare delivery in the developing world. Additionally, WHITIA announced that Newton N.
July 22, 2009 
News
July 23, 2009 – Advanced visualization and analysis software company Ziosoft Inc. released the latest version of its 3D thin-client software, adding MR cardiac and CT cardiac function applications.
July 22, 2009 Sponsored Content
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September 25, 2024 Feature
The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and its impact on radiology is foremost on the minds of everyone in healthcare.
July 22, 2009 
Feature | Iris C. Gibbs, M.D., radiation oncologis
Advances in the medical field have allowed physicians to treat cancer patients in a number of different ways, including surgery and radiation therapy. These advances have helped to prolong lives and made treatments possible where none were before.
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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan
Women may sometimes choose a mastectomy over radiation therapy because either they cannot meet the daily demands of a five to seven-week radiation treatment schedule or they fear recurrence and feel a mastectomy is a safer choice.
July 22, 2009 Sponsored Content
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The art of radiation therapy is finding the balance between speed and accuracy. The challenge is to deliver the optimal amount of dose with pinpoint precision and without damaging healthy surrounding tissue. This task is further complicated, however, by fiscal pressures that force clinicians to put a premium on patient throughput, narrowing that window of accuracy.
July 22, 2009 
Feature | Marc Filerman is the vice president of g
According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is second only to lung cancer as America’s leading cancer killer each year. Over 50,000 Americans will die from colon cancer this year alone. While this is a staggering statistic, it is estimated that less than half of the Americans who are recommended to be screened for colon cancer actually get tested.
July 22, 2009 
Case Study
Huntington Beach Diagnostic Imaging and Breast Center (HBDI) in Huntington Beach, Calif., is a state-of-the-art imaging practice located adjacent to Huntington Beach Hospital. HBDI, originally part of Huntington Beach Hospital, provided inpatient and outpatient mammography, ultrasound, MRI, CT, nuclear medicine and X-ray services.
July 22, 2009 Sponsored Content
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July 22, 2009 – Before implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system, providers must first gain control of the number of records, forms and files flowing through the organization, and a recent Xerox Corp. study explained issues involved.
July 22, 2009 
News
July 21, 2009 - Elekta and C-RAD have reached an agreement where the Sentinel laser scanner system has been selected as the Elekta preferred solution for optical surface tracking. Elekta’s customers will be offered this technology for patient positioning and intrafraction motion detection without the use of markers.
July 22, 2009 
Technology
July 21, 2009 - The FCR Prima digital X-ray system from FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc. was created specifically to meet the X-ray needs of low volume private practices, and is now available.
July 22, 2009 Sponsored Content
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Feature | Dahriana Mateo
It is a question of clinical practicality. Computed radiography (CR) has traditionally offered greater flexibility in the clinical setting and at a lower cost compared to its more cumbersome and costlier digital radiography (DR) counterpart.
July 21, 2009 
Feature
A number of market forces, including the rapid development of volumetric imaging and other technological advancements, have increased the availability of three-dimensional (3D) diagnostic images.
July 21, 2009 Sponsored Content
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News
July 21, 2009 – Total procedures performed in angio labs from 2004 to 2008 grew 20 percent, from 4 million in 2004 to 4.8 million procedures in 2008 for hospitals with 150 plus beds, resulting in an average annual growth rate of 4-5 percent, according to a recent report released by IMV.
July 21, 2009 
News
July 21, 2009 - Varian Medical Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Acuros capability offered initially in its brachytherapy treatment planning system, which will be on display at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) at Anaheim, Calif., from July 26-30.
July 21, 2009 
News
July 21, 2009 – The American College of Radiology’s (ACR) chair, James H. Thrall, M.D., FACR, sent out an “Action Alert” to 7,000 ACR members who are constituents of Energy and Commerce with background and talking points urging phone calls of support for the Weiner/Braley self-referral amendment.
July 21, 2009 
Feature
The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and its impact on radiology is foremost on the minds of everyone in healthcare.
July 21, 2009 
News
July 21, 2009 - Philips Healthcare has signed an eight-year iSite PACS expansion deal with OrthoCarolina, one of the largest orthopedic practices in the nation comprised of 16 locations in the Charlotte, N.C. region.
July 20, 2009 News
July 21, 2009 – PACSGEAR, a provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities today announced the expansion of its European Office, located in Munich, Germany. The new office supports PACSGEAR’s continued growth in the EMEAR region, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia.
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