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Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. has announced that Indiana University (IU) Hospital recently installed two Ultimax multipurpose all-digital X-ray systems, The move is expected to expand the hospital’s procedural capacity.


Bartron Medical Imaging has selected Scali Manage to implement and manage a 64-node Hierarchical Image Segmentation Cluster, which is the first of 10 Linux clusters that are planned for implementation in the United States. The clusters perform the processing of digital images, used by diagnosticians, via Bartron's MED-SEG Systems that will aid in the early detection and treatment of potentially life threatening diseases.


CompView Medical on Monday announced the completion of the installation of the company’s NuBOOM system at Detroit Medical Center’s Harper University Hospital.


MEDSEEK has announced the launch of two client websites. Bethesda Memorial Hospital, a 390-bed, not-for-profit hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla., and Virginia Mason Medical Center, a 336-bed acute-care hospital in Seattle, Wash., selected MEDSEEK’S comprehensive solutions to connect patients and their families online.


Orthocrat on Tuesday announced that its orthopedic digital system that provides advanced orthopedic surgical planning and templating, called Traumacad, has been selected by Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.

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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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