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.

AHIMA hosts October convention and exhibit

Celebrating 75 years as an influential healthcare organization, The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) hosts its national convention and exhibit Oct. 18 - 23 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Traveling an option for IOM's annual meeting

While Washington, D.C., is the setting for this year's annual meeting of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Oct. 27 and 28, participants can stay at home and partake via the World Wide Web.

Baltimore is the location of HIDA's 2003 MedSurge Conference & Expo

More than 300 manufacturers from all markets of healthcare will participate in this year's MedSurg Conference and Expo Oct. 2 - 4 hosted by the Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA).

SonoSite Inc. announces three executive appointments

Henry A. Krause has joined hand-held ultrasound developer and manufacturer SonoSite as vice president of international sales and distribution.

ARRT to open computed tomography eligibility to nuclear medicine technologists

The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) will offer nuclear medicine technologists certification in CT (computed tomography) starting in 2005, approximately 10 years after the CT exam was first introduced for registered radiographers and r

Cardinal Health's dose calibrator receives FDA clearance

Dublin, Ohio-based company Cardinal Health Inc. has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Nuclear Associates' Calrad Mark VI dose calibrator.

VHA expands agreement with IBM

To improve the storage capabilities of its nationwide network of 2,200 community-owned healthcare organizations, VHA Inc. will offer IBM storage products, additional servers and Cisco hardware and maintenance services.

Siemens inks deal with i3Archive

Siemens Medical Solutions has signed an agreement with i3Archive Inc. to deliver its National Digital Mammography Archive (NDMA) to healthcare facilities nationwide.

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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