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. 

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Smooth Talk and Smart Operations

At Southern Ohio Medical Center, the adoption of speech recognition software in the radiology department has yielded significant gains in productivity and decreases in report turnaround time.

In the PACS Equation: Nuclear Medicine & Image Management

While nuclear medicine departments tout their own image management solutions, integrating with conventional hospital PACS poses a challenge.

Creating the Enterprise PACS Success Story

Sally Grady, director of imaging services at Florida Hospital-Celebration Health, discusses the ins and outs of enterprise image management.

Joining Forces: PET-CT Adds Essential Information

PET-CT systems boost confidence in staging cancers, evaluating effectiveness of treatment and guiding biopsies.

Reaching Across the Enterprise

Effective image management is an enterprise priority. Throughout The Digital Enterprise, you'll find examples of healthcare enterprises that have turned priority to success.

Analog & Digital: The Mammography Workflow Primer

Workflow efficiencies must be refined for facilities working in digital, analog and mixed mammography environments.

Allscripts releases new EHR geared for small practices

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions recently announced the launch of TouchChart, an Electronic Health Record (EHR) designed for small, independent physician practices.

Drug-coated stents solve problems with aging vein grafts

Blockages in vein-bypass grafts which route blood away from diseased areas of the heart can be helped dramatically through the use of drug-coated stents, according to the June issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions: Journal of the Socie

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Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business
FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

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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