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. 

ScanSoft ships Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK server edition

ScanSoft Inc. this week launched the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 software development kit (SDK) server edition that supports server-based speech recognition of recorded dictation.

GE, Kodak ink global vendor financing agreement

GE Healthcare Financial Services, a unit of GE Commercial Finance, and Eastman Kodak Company's Health Imaging Group, have signed a global vendor financing agreement that will enable Kodak to offer its customers a full range of GE equipment financing optio

Healthcare IT a catalyst to lowering costs

Almost a week before the Republican Party kick-started its national convention in New York, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced that President Bush's efforts to promote healthcare information technology

AHRA's CRA fall exam deadline Sept. 15th

This year's fall certified radiology administrator (CRA) examination offered by the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) will be conducted in computer-based format on Friday, Oct. 9th at 118 compUSA Testing Centers located in 35 states.

Dynamic scores PACS install

Olean General Hospital, a 186-bed hospital in western New York, has deployed Dynamic Imaging's IntegradWeb, the company's second-generation web-driven picture archiving and communication system (PACS).

Stentor welcomes Filion onboard

Medical informatics company Stentor Inc. this week announced that Scott J. Filion has joined the company as division VP of sales.

ASTRO elects 2005 officers

The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) released the results of the recent election for the open positions on the Board of Directors and within two councils.

Healthlink boosts presence in the federal healthcare sector

IT consulting firm Healthlink Inc. of Houston, Texas, has signed a Schedule 70, five-year contract with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

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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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