Safe implementation of new technologies and therapies accompany classic patient safety challenges on ECRI Institute's “2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations.” The report highlights concerns from health information management, clinical decision support and new oral anticoagulants, to long-standing concerns like test result reporting and follow-up and unrecognized patient deterioration.

GE Healthcare announced the launch of its new Senographe Pristina mammography system, designed to make breast screening more comfortable and inviting for patients.

Carestream announced that it provided a DRX Plus 3543 digital X-ray detector for the 2017 National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine in Indianapolis to aid in physical examinations for top college football players. The detector was used with the existing X-ray system at Lucas Oil Stadium; additional tests were conducted at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

ContextVision recently received a patent approval on a new skeletal visualization technology for 3-D ultrasound.

March 23, 2017 — Swedish healthcare provider Danderyd Hospital AB has signed a five-year contract with Sectra for the company’s picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and radiology information system (RIS) for radiology and cardiology. This solution comprises a cloud service hosted within the healthcare organization, which will be integrated with Stockholm County Council’s shared archive for medical images.

UroNav Fusion Biopsy System

March 23, 2017 — Urology specialists at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit) have begun using the UroNav Fusion Biopsy System, which fuses three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of the prostate with live ultrasound images to precisely target prostate biopsies.

Profound Medical Corp. announced that it has successfully completed the first sale of a TULSA-PRO system in Finland to the Turku University Hospital (“Tyks”). The deal was completed in collaboration with Philips, who is working in partnership with Profound to commercialize the TULSA-PRO system in Europe.

Carestream Health will show its Carestream Touch Prime and Touch Prime XE Ultrasound Systems at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine convention, March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla. Both premium systems are designed for general diagnostic imaging use in radiology.

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