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. 

Orion, Boston Software form partnership

Orion Systems International will embed Boston Software Systems' Boston WorkStation scripting tool in its Rhapsody Integration Engine and also as a Single Sign-On (SSO) and context management scripting tool in Concerto Medical Applications Portal.

Elekta highlights technologies to improve cancer treatment

Elekta Inc. showcased Synergy, its radiation treatment machine equipped with an integrated 3D volume imaging system, this week at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) in Atlanta.

Blue Cross of NY reimburses online patient visits

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York has agreed to reimburse physicians for online patient visits.

Varian launches Clinac iX, adds capabilities to VARiS Vision

Varian Medical Systems Inc. this week at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in Atlanta unveiled the Clinac iX linear accelerator.

Milwaukee Brewers uses Kodak systems to treat injured players

The Milwaukee Brewers announced plans to install Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group line of digital image capture, distribution and printing technologies at Miller Park stadium in Milwaukee, Wis.

Calypso to collaborate with Philips and IMPAC

Calypso Medical Technologies Inc. signed strategic collaboration agreements with Philips Medical Systems' Radiation Oncology division and IMPAC Medical Systems at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTR

VitalWorks: Class action complaint dismissed; new executive office location and CFO

VitalWorks Inc. this week announced that on October 1st, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton dismissed with prejudice the consolidated class action complaint filed against VitalWorks and three of its individual officers and directors.

NIH grants $80 million to biomedical computing centers

Following its roadmap plan for bioinformatics and computational biology, the National Institutes of Health this week named four new national centers for biomedical computing that will develop and implement the core of a universal computing infrastructure

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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