Siemens Healthcare sponsored a series of symposia and showcased its most recent CT scanner and image interpretation software at this years meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.

As the movement to include dose estimates in the EMR gains traction, physicians need to proceed with caution and avoid using cumulative radiation dose estimates to inform individual patient care, according to an editorial published in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has been named a Center of Quantitative Imaging Excellence by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Health IT company TeraRecon showed iNtuition advanced visualization and cloud products at this years scientific meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.

Digital pathology company DigiPath has fielded a medical advisory board in an attempt to expand international adoption of digital pathology systems.

Nuance Communications has acquired Webmedx, a provider of transcription and editing services and clinical documentation technology for hospitals and clinics nationwide. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Successful RIS/PACS implementation hinges on multiple factors?ease of use, efficiency, robust features, services and more. Also critically important on the list of ingredients for success is integration.

Agfa HealthCare has signed a contract with Denmark's Hovedstaden Region to install and manage its Impax RIS/PACS throughout the region's 12 hospitals. The unified system will be complemented by Impax Data Center to create a cross-regional image and data repository.