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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

What a difference a few decades makes. In the early-1980s radiologists couldn’t wait to get their hands on an MR scanner ...

Time March 13, 2013
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

“Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th century philosopher Not long ago images ...

Time February 20, 2013
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

In what one day may be recognized as a melding of epidemiology and medical imaging, researchers are associating human ...

Time January 30, 2013
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The radiology community may be in for a shock soon. Regents Health Resources, a national consulting firm specializing in ...

Time January 10, 2013
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Sean Reilly, ITN Publisher

In a recent LinkedIn Medical Device Group posting, it was noted that DuVal & Associates, P.A. filed a Citizen Petition ...

Time January 09, 2013
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

For many years mammographers have been saddled with low reimbursements. Recognizing this, women’s health advocates ...

Time January 03, 2013
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Five states now mandate physicians to inform women with dense breasts that mammography may be of limited value to them ...

Time December 19, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The top step I took to the 2012 RSNA exhibit halls at the McCormick Center in Chicago bore the RSNA theme “Patients ...

Time December 07, 2012
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

Trends at RSNA 2012 included software solutions to help meet Stage 2 meaningful use requirements for remote viewing of ...

Time December 07, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

In a skeptical world, old maxims fall hard. Photojournalists can attest to that. Seeing today is anything but believing ...

Time November 20, 2012
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting is a key source of the latest clinical trial data on new ...

Time November 14, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

With its million-dollar scanners and their mushrooming use in recent years, medical imaging has become the poster child ...

Time October 11, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The medical community buzzed a couple of weeks ago as word spread of technology guru Vinod Khosla’s prediction that the ...

Time September 20, 2012
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Wayne Webster

In a recent article, “The AMA Backs Bills to Stop Medicare Imaging Pay Cuts,” the American Medical Association (AMA) ...

Time September 19, 2012
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Sean Reilly, ITN Publisher

Like an eyewitness to a freight train bearing down on a rocket fuel truck at a railroad crossing, I couldn’t avoid ...

Time September 04, 2012
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

Cardiac computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), echocardiography and nuclear myocardial perfusion ...

Time August 29, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

We want absolutes; things we can depend on; certainties in an unfortunately uncertain world. It’s the kind of faith we ...

Time August 29, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

When I was a kid, living in a mid-size Wisconsin town, my family would drive the mile or so from our home to the Lake ...

Time July 27, 2012
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Google is now testing an augmented reality technology called “Glass” that takes what we now click up on our PCs and ...

Time July 06, 2012
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Sean Reilly, ITN Publisher

It has been interesting to monitor news outlets and social media since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Affordable Care ...

Time July 03, 2012
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