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.

AMIA names new president & CEO

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has appointed Don E. Detmer, MD, president and CEO of the association.

Matrox unveils low profile controller boards at JSMRM

Matrox Graphics Inc. introduced two new display controller boards for low profile workstations, Low Profile RAD2mp and Low Profile RAD3mp, at the annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (JSMRM) in Otsu, Japan, Sept. 16 - 1

ContextVision taps Toyo as Japanese distributor

ContextVision Inc. has made Toyo Corp. a distributor of its GOPView image enhancement products in Japan.

Totoku certifying displays for Matrox display boards

Totoku Electric Co. Ltd. says it is in the process of validating Matrox Graphics Inc.'s TheatreVUE series display projection boards, including the Matrox TheatreVUE T20 and TheatreVUE T30, with the ME201L, ME203L, ME213L and ME315L Totoku medical displays

MedImage adds volume registration tool

MedImage Inc. this week released MedView, a new volume registration tool for DELTAmanager.

Planar debuts point-of-care workstations

Planar Systems Inc. this week released Invitium, a new series of mobile point-of-care (POC) workstations for bedside clinician documentation and order entry.

IDC study: EMC continues to dominate storage market

EMC Corp. extended its worldwide storage software lead again in the second quarter of 2004 to 32.5 percent revenue share, according to a new report released today by IDC.

Study: Health IT professionals earning healthy salaries

Seventy-five percent of healthcare information technology (IT) professionals received raises in 2003 that averaged 4.8 percent, according to respondents of the 2004 Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Compensation Survey

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.