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.

Kodak sets future targets for Health Imaging business unit

Eastman Kodak Co. has some aggressive goals for its Health Imaging business unit over the next several years.

SourceOne says it is on course for profitable 2003

One year after Platinum Equity LLC created SourceOne Healthcare Technologies Inc., the U.S. imaging products distributor says it has turned the corner to profitability.

IDX gains; Two pacts down, three to go for U.K. National Health Service

IDX Systems Corp. is partnering with British Telecomunications plc in a proposal to supply clinical information technology systems and services to the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) for the London region.

Documentum could join EMC as soon as next week

EMC Corp. on Wednesday said that it could complete its proposed acquisition of Documentum Inc. on Dec. 18, following the special meeting of Documentum shareholders that day.

IBM and EMC trade barbs in disk-storage battle

Which is the leading company in the disk-storage industry? Ask IBM and EMC and you can be sure to receive different answers.

Cedara Software revs up its technology portofolio

Cedara Software Corp. will market its family of I-Suite PACS (picture archiving and communications systems) through Beijing Invention & Technology Corp. (BITC) in China.

Hologic partners with InSiteOne and Mammography Reporting System

Hologic Inc. has signed a definitive distribution agreement with InSiteOne and a sales pact with Mammography Reporting System Inc.

ASRT: Enrollment increases in radiation therapy programs

Some 1,274 first-year students enrolled in radiation therapy programs nationwide in the fall of 2003, 23 percent more than 2002 and 57 percent more than 2001.

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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