Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

EMC announces highly scalable, flexible addition to DMX series

EMC Corporation this week announced the new Symmetrix DMX-3 system a next-generation high-end storage platform of the company's Symmetrix DMX-2 Series of systems.

House committee approves medical errors bill

The House Energy and Commerce Committee last week passed a compromise version of a bill (HR 3205) designed to build a voluntary reporting system for medical errors. Along with committee leadership, Senators Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass

Medicare to provide free software to help physicians go paperless

In a surprising move, Medicare plans to announce an initiative to distribute electronic health records (EHR) software to physicians as part of a free program with a goal of helping medical practices make the shift to more of a paperless environment, the N

CHRISTUS Health's Mobile Healthcare nabs 2005 AMDIS award

PatientKeeper Inc. a provider of mobile computing systems for healthcare, announced recently that one of its customers, CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi in Texas, was named one of the winners of the 2005 AMDIS Awards for excellence and achievement i

DUNLEE offers protection from replacement CT tube costs

DUNLEE has announced Glassware Solutions, a program designed to protect hospitals and imaging centers from the high cost of replacement glassware. The company will showcase the program at this years' American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) ann

Dictaphone introduces traditional EMR alternative mdEssential

Dictaphone Corporation today announced the introduction of mdEssential, the company's first software offering to combine its voice dictation, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP) technologies.

Kodak announces upgrade to its radiation oncology CR system

Eastman Kodak Company this week announced new features for its 2000RT CR Plus computed radiography (CR) system for radiation oncology as well as showcased its image management and archiving systems at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AA

Array has geared DICOM Scan Pro Plus software for mammography

The DICOM Scan Pro Plus software upgrade from Array Corporation USA now offers DICOM conformance for mammography by meeting the requirements for hanging protocols and DICOM tags, when viewed on diagnostic work stations that support the mammography standar

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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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