Contracts: Siemens, Varian

Siemens Medical Solutions and University Hospitals (UH) of Cleveland, Ohio, announced that two facilities within UH have recently gone live on Soarian Financials, Siemens revenue cycle management solution. Brown Memorial Hospital (Conneaut, Ohio) and Memorial Hospital of Geneva (Geneva, Ohio) converted three million patient records and 10 years worth of visit details into the new system.

Clinicians at UZ Gasthuisberg, a university hospital in Leuven, Belgium, are using a new Varian Medical Systems Clinac medical linear accelerator equipped with an On-Board Imager device to capture high-quality images of tumors at the time of treatment.

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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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