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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.

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Study: RF departments evolving toward digital imaging environment

An estimated 12.5 million procedures were performed on radiographic fluoroscopy (RF) imaging equipment in hospitals with 150 or more beds in the United States in 2002, according to a study published by IMV Medical Information Division called "The 2003 Rad

iCAD, TeraRecon ink product licensing and distribution agreement

iCAD Inc. and TeraRecon Inc. this week entered into a three-year product licensing and distribution agreement.

Siemens, HipGraphics to advance syngo InSpace for 3D

Siemens Medical Solutions and HipGraphics Inc. of Baltimore, Md. this week revealed plans to continue advancing syngo InSpace, an interactive image processing software that enables three-dimensional (3D) processing of large volume data sets in real-time.

Medrad announces enhancements to its infusion system

Medrad Inc. this week unveiled enhancements to its Continuum MR Compatible Infusion system.

SCAR funds annual grants to support medical research

The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) has funded original research in radiology informatics with two $40,000 grants for 2005.

Study: Federal focus on healthcare IT

Nearly half of respondents (48 percent) indicated that creating incentives for organizations using information technology (IT) within the Medicare program will have the most impact toward helping organizations mitigate their financial investment in health

i3ARCHIVE adopts new 3G standards into NDMA

Becoming the first company to adopt the new third-generation (3G) standards for Grid Computing in the medical community, i3ARCHIVE Inc. will integrate the standards into its National Digital Mammography Archive (NDMA), an archive of digital mammography im

Data-Ray closing its doors

Medical display firm Data-Ray Corp. is going out of business, after its parent company, Nippon Chemi-Con Corp. announced July 1st that it will discontinue operations of Data-Ray and the Medical Display LCD business.

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