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. 

Kaiser Permanente allocates $8 million for IHI scholarship program

Kaiser Permanente will provide an $8 million endowment to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that funds new scholarship programs to allow healthcare professionals to participate in IHI healthcare improvement programs including conferences, tra

Swissray, Lake Erie cooperative sign agreement

Swissray International signed a sole source corporate capital agreement with Lake Erie Cooperative in Toledo, Ohio, for digital radiography (DR) products and services.

UPMC: Nation's first Telerehabilitation Engineering Research Center

The University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) has been awarded a five-year, $4.25 million grant from the federal government's National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to establish the Rehabi

Eclipsys, VHA add muscle to partnership

A new three year agreement makes Eclipsys Corp. a supplier of clinical information systems for healthcare cooperative VHA.

Report: HIT spending to spike in 2005

A new report from research and consulting firm Capgemini expects 2005 to see a boost in healthcare information technology (HIT) spending.

ComSynTech, SSI integrate technologies

Communication Synergy Technology Inc. (ComSynTech) will integrate its InFORM radiology reporting system (RIS) with SSI Group Inc.'s billing system.

Siemens touts Soarian sales

Siemens Medical Solutions announces that the fourth quarter of FY04 2004 ending Sept. 30 marked the strongest quarter to date for sales of Soarian, Siemens new-generation health information system.

Eastern Isotopes, Integrated Medical Solutions help implement PET Dementia Program

Eastern Isotopes, a subsidiary of IBA (Ion Beam Applications), has entered into a distribution agreement with Integrated Medical Solutions LLC to offer "Jump Start: A Dementia Program for PET."

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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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