Asante Health System provides comprehensive medical care to more than 580,000 people throughout Southern Oregon and Northern California. As the largest healthcare provider in nine counties, Asante knew seamlessly sharing patient information with affiliates would be key to better physician relationships and improved patient outcomes.  

PET imaging
PET imaging

Precision medicine is not only a buzzword, it is a call to action to radically advance our capabilities in the era of molecular targeted medicine. Positron emission tomography (PET) has firmly established its leading role as a capable oncologic molecular imaging technique over the last two decades, however its technological advances have been modest at best.

Medical College of Wisconsin provides physician practice at three major affiliates — Froedtert Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the Zablocki VA Medical Center — and many other hospitals and clinics in the Milwaukee area. Each year, its providers, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and psychologists care for more than 425,000 patients, representing more than 1.6 million patient visits. 

wireless detector, canon CXDI-801C, DR, digital radiography
digital radiography, DR, Agfa, Musica
portable x-ray system, carestream, DR, digital radiography
flat panel detector, Fujifilm, FDR DEVO, DR, digital radiography

The remaining users of film and computed radiography (CR) may get some carrot, if they transition to digital radiography (DR). It may come in the form of improved productivity, reduced X-ray dose to patients and better image quality. But the legislation that may spur the transition is all stick.

The remaining users of film and computed radiography (CR) may get some carrot, if they transition to digital radiography (DR). It may come in the form of improved productivity, reduced X-ray dose to patients and better image quality. But the legislation that may spur the transition is all stick.
enterprise imaging

Enterprise imaging as a concept has been around for several years, but many organizations are just turning their full attention to it now, according to Jef Williams, managing partner at Paragon Consulting Partners. This is because other health information technology (IT) endeavors have taken precedence, including electronic medical records (EMRs) and Meaningful Use. Now, as enterprise imaging comes to the forefront, Williams and other speakers at the 2016 annual meeting of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) discussed the importance of having an enterprise imaging strategy and how to implement it. 
The Philips Ingenia MRI system. The vendor offers MRI software packages for MRI image analysis.
The Toshiba Titan 3T MRI system using a MRI breast coil.

The most recent big advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology have been on the software side, enabling faster contrast scans, greatly simplified cardiac imaging workflows and allowing MR of the lung.  

This has been an exciting week for Imaging Technology News (ITN) — as I write this, we are on location at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus Breast Center shooting a roundtable discussion on stereotactic procedures. The purpose of this roundtable was to discuss some of the challenges that radiologists and technicians face when performing stereotactic procedures, and possible ways to make the experience less traumatic and stressful for the patient. Our esteemed group of experts included Laura Shepardson, M.D., a breast radiologist at the Cleveland Clinic where she also serves as associate director of breast imaging; Susan Miller, M.D., also a staff radiologist at the Cleveland Clinic; and Cynthia Miller and Stacey Veri, technologists at the breast center. 

Breast cancer survivor and Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow joined Steve MacMillan, president and chief executive officer of Hologic, to ring the Nasdaq Opening Bell Monday, in conjunction with the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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