Screening

Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.

Medrad expands MR product line

Medrad Inc. introduced the Veris physiological monitor designed for adult, pediatric and neonate patient monitoring that can withstand high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environments up to 3 Tesla.

Mennen debuts Horizon Angio at SIR

Mennen Medical Corp. launched the Horizon Angio, a patient hemodynamic monitoring and documentation system for the interventional radiology market, at Society of Interventional Radiology's (SIR) 30th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, La., March 31

Merry X-Ray to distribute ComSynTech's RIS

Communication Synergy Technologies Inc. (ComSynTech) has picked up a new distributor for its MedSynTech InFORM RIS (radiology information system).

AOL ex-chief starts Revolution

Former AOL chairman Steve Case this week announced a Washington, D.C.-based $500 million venture called Revolution.

Keystone's Blue Cross provides physicians with PDAs

Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania is embarking on an initiative that will put clinical information at the point of patient care.

"Kissing" stents improve treatment of branch-point plaque

According to a recently published report in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions: Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, a technique that uses side-by-side stents at an arterial branch point of a heart is impr

Quest offers mobile display carts and stainless steel LCD enclosures

Quest International has released new mobile carts and stainless steel enclosures, two additions to its NEC and Totoku medical displays.

GE Healthcare releases new products, upgrades at SIR

GE Healthcare announced a series of new products and upgrades at the Society of Interventional Radiology's (SIR) 30th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, La., March 31 - April 5.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.