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 gets FDA OK for mammography CRT

Barco this week announced Food and Drug Administration 510K clearance for its CRT-based MGD 521M display.

Molecular Imaging installs PET technology at Kaweah Delta Health Care District

Molecular Imaging Corp. will roll out its positron emission tomography (PET) technology at certain facilities affiliated with Kaweah Delta Health Care District in the California Central Valley.

IDX provides LSU revenue cycle management technologies and services

IDX Systems Corp. and LSU Healthcare Network (LSUHN) in Louisiana this week announced an agreement under which LSUHN will outsource significant portions of its business office and technology functions through the IDX Flowcast Business Services Outsourcing

El Camino Hospital implements Wi-Fi for patients

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., is among the first hospitals in the U.S. to offer high-speed wireless Internet access to its patients and visitors through utilization of Wi-Fi enabled notebooks and hand-held computers.

Medicare to cover PET for Alzheimer's imaging

On the heels of President Ronald Reagan's death from Alzheimer's disease and just a week before the start of the annual Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in Philadelphia, PET facilities got some good news.

Camtronics deploys Vericis at Florida-based hospital

Camtronics Medical Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of Analogic Corp., rolled out its Vericis for cardiovascular image and information management at Halifax Medical Center (HMC) in Daytona Beach, Fla.

IHE seeking public comments on cardiology initiative

The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative has announced several new technical framework supplements available for public comment through July 15th.

AMD Telemedicine and iCRco reach CR and Film Scanner Agreement

iCRco Inc. of Torrance, Calif., and AMD Telemedicine Inc. of Lowell, Mass., this week inked a global agreement enabling AMD to offer its customers the iCRco systems.

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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