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. 

Barco flat display integrated with ZONARE's z.one system

Barco has recently been chosen to develop and manufacture a custom 13" flat-panel display for ZONARE for its z.one ultrasound-platform for use in obstetrics, gynecology, vascular and other emerging ultrasound applications.

FDA clearance granted for Kodak New DR

Eastman Kodak Co. said this week it received 510k clearance from the FDA for the KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 7500 System and will begin shipping the radiography system to customers in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Cerner, SenSage collaborate on security

Cerner Corp. and SenSage Inc. have released the new P2Sentinel Enterprise, a Cerner system that utilizes the SenSage family of enterprise security analytics software for aggregating, monitoring and investigating security events.

GE Healthcare, Intermountain Health Care target medical errors

GE Healthcare and Intermountain Health Care (IHC) integrated healthcare system yesterday announced a collaboration to prevent adverse drug events and increase patient safety.

CoActiv adds pediatric assessment capability to EXAM-PACS

CoActiv Medical this week announced the integration of EXAM-PACS with the latest version of OrthoView 3.0, which adds a Pediatric Assessment Module (PAM), an all-inclusive set of tools and wizards that allow the accurate assessment of congenital deformiti

Brailer: Legislation could cause health IT slow down

In comments to a senate subcommittee recently, National Health IT Coordinator David Brailer, MD, PhD, warned that legislation designed to spur on the adoption of health information technology could actually create speed bumps in the process.

Philips looks to boost healthcare IT presence with Stentor acquisition

Philips Medical Systems this week announced it is stepping up its healthcare IT capabilities and particularly its PACS offerings with the proposed acquisition by its parent, Royal Philips Electronics, of web-based PACS provider Stentor, Inc.

Pair of new health IT bills look to pay the bill for IT

As Health Imaging News has reported recently, there have been a slew of health IT bills introduced this year -- but none until now has offered concrete answers for paying for the technology. Two bills looking to pay for IT were introduced together at a jo

Around the web

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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