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.

Q&A: McClennen sees PACS through Amicas colored glasses

Health Imaging & IT sat down with Peter this week in his Boston office to ask about his move to Amicas and the PACS industry today and how he sees it in the future.

X-ray Vision is Taking Over

About 40 percent of x-ray rooms are supported by digital radiography, and some say the number of digital scans has surpassed analog.

Lessons from Pioneers - Digital Mammography

Buying smart in digital mammography means more than finding the best imaging system. Factor in workflow and PACS integration, too.

TeraRecon sees 100% order growth for Aquarius products

TeraRecon Inc. of San Matea, Calif. announced this week that its U.S.-headquartered Aquarius 3D workstation and server operations have seen 100 percent annual sales order growth for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, compared with the same period th

Saragnese to lead GE's FCT business

GE Healthcare announced that Gene Saragnese has been named vice president and general manager of the company's Global Functional and Computed Tomography (FCT) business.

NovaRad lands NovaPACS deal

NovaRad Corp. has been awarded a contract from Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians Inc. (COPCP) to install its NovaPACS system for viewing and archiving digital images, NovaRad said the system will be integrated with the facility's existing RIS (radiolog

Eclipsys: deploys Sunrise, releases clinical application suite

Eclipsys Corp. this week announced that Pittsburgh, Penn.-based health system West Penn Allegheny Health Systems (WPAHS) will implement the company's Sunrise Clinical Manager at four of its facilities.

PMSI, Primetime partner

Electronic health record (EHR) and computerized physician order entry systems vendor Physician Micro Systems Inc. (PMSI) and Primetime Medical Software Inc., maker of the Instant Medical History patient interview application, have integrated technologies.

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.