Diagnostic Imaging

Radiologists use diagnostic imaging to non-invasively look inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and confirm a diagnosis. Providers use many imaging modalities to do so, including CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, PET and more.

Siemens rolls out 1.5T MR with Tim technology at Pa.-based imaging center

Vision Imaging of Leesport, Pa., has deployed Siemens Medical Solutions' Magnetom Avanto, a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) system with Tim (total imaging matrix) technology.

Kodak provides Unity Health System with Secure Email Services

Eastman Kodak Company says it will deploy its Kodak Secure Email Services at Unity Health System in New York.

Toshiba to provide multislice CT systems to LERC

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. has inked a preferred provider agreement with Lake Erie Regional Cooperative (LERC) to supply its multislice CT (computed tomography) technology to LERC's 25 hospitals and healthcare organizations across northwest Ohio

Kodak rolls out CR, PACS at Long Island Hospital

Operations at Central Suffolk Hospital of Riverhead, N.Y., are going filmless as the 214-bed hospital purchased digital image capture and information management systems from Eastman Kodak Company's Health Imaging Group.

U.M.G., Fuji ink distribution agreement

United Marketing Group Inc. (U.M.G.) of Harrison, N.Y., and FujiFilm Medical Systems USA of Stamford, Conn., inked a national distribution agreement that entitles U.M.G. to distribute Fuji's medical films to all non-hospital clinical markets.

HIMSS survey: Data security, productivity are CIO priorities

When it comes to investment in networking solutions for healthcare information technology, data security (67 percent) and productivity gains (60 percent) rank as major factors, according to respondents of the 2004 Healthcare Information and Management Sys

Siemens highlights new digital echo PACS at ASE conference

Siemens Medical Solutions this week introduced a new image and patient data management system for entry-level digital echocardiography called Image-Arena at the 15th annual meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), June 28 - 30, in San Di

R2 wins FDA approval for two ImageChecker CT software modules

R2 Technology Inc. has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market two software packages for use with the ImageChecker CT system during review of multi-detector CT (MDCT) chest exams.

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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