The newly opened Spire Shawfair Park Hospital has installed Siemens Axiom Luminos dRF and Ysio wi-D DR systems.

The International Standards Organization (ISO) has released ISO 14155:2011, an International Standard for assessing the safety and performance of medical devices, intended to protect patients and provide a technical basis for regulation while minimizing the technical barriers to trade.

Last week, 30 members of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) visited Capitol Hill to meet with congressional offices on a variety of issues facing the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging community. Forty-eight meetings were held with staff members from key congressional committees and from the local districts of the SNM members.

St. Alexius Hospital has selected Carestream Health's PACS for its 200-bed facility.

Computer-aided detection (CAD) and radiotherapy company iCAD posted a net loss of $4.20 million in the first quarter (Q1) of 2011, compared with losses totaling $1.18 million in Q1 of last year.

Multi-modality breast imaging took a huge step forward last week as Massachusetts Life Sciences Center awarded Qianqian Fang, PhD, and Philips Healthcare a $500,000 grant aimed at equipping traditional mammography systems with a low-cost optical imaging system, offering the potential to dramatically improve breast cancer detection.

CHICAGONew studies are beginning to demonstrate the real-world implications of the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening mammography guidelines. A trio of papers presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) suggested that primary care physicians are referring fewer patients age 40 to 49 for screening mammography and fewer women in that age cohort are seeking screening exams. A retrospective study indicated that unscreened women are diagnosed at later stages.

Corepoint Health, a healthcare integration software provider, and Champion Medical Technologies, which offers IT for tissue and implant tracking, have partnered to develop a system that enables healthcare organzations to track information from Champion applications such as GraftTracker and UDITracker.