Contracts & Installations Roundup

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. (TAMS) announced that Parma Community General Hospital in Parma, Ohio, has completed installation of the Infinix CC-i FPD (flat panel detector), a single plane, ceiling-mounted vascular and cardiac imaging system.


Allscripts announced that Santa Monica Bay Physicians has selected the TouchWorks Electronic Health Record to automate and connect the group's 32 providers.


Carilion Health System today announced that it will install InnerWireless Medical-grade Wireless Utility in three of its 10 non-profit healthcare facilities, including its largest facility, the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Va. Carilion will first utilize the Wireless Utility to enhance 802.11 coverage for existing clinical applications, handheld devices and PDAs (such as BlackBerry), and to improve cellular applications used by the hospital staff.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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