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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Philips ships record number of mobile ultrasound system in 10 months

Philips Medical Systems' EnVisor ultrasound system has gained worldwide acceptance with more than 1,600 systems shipped in ten months.

Hospital begins $75 million facility expansion

West Virginia University Hospital (WVU) has broken ground on its $75 million expansion project.

Toshiba's Aquilion 16 CFX CT system in use for cardiac applications

Toshiba America Medical Systems has deployed its Aquilion 16 CFX CT multislice computed tomography (CT) scanner to many healthcare providers for advanced cardiac studies.

M. D. Anderson takes GEMSIT Centricity Pharmacy system

GE Medical Systems Information Technologies (GEMSIT) has signed a 10-year agreement with the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to license and install the GE Centricity Pharmacy system.

iCAD received FDA OK on iQ CAD system

The FDA has cleared iCAD Inc.'s new iCAD iQ computer-aided detection (CAD) system for marketing.

Kodak awarded multi-million dollar VA orders

Eastman Kodak Co. will provide the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) several million dollars worth of computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems.

Philips Medical, Epic Systems partner on IT integration

Royal Philips Electronics N.V. and Epic Systems Corp. are aligning to integrate Epic's patient-centric, enterprise-wide healthcare information systems with Philips' medical imaging, picture archiving and communication system (PACS), and patient monitoring

CMS announces payment increase and fee schedules

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a final rule updating rates to hospitals under the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) that would increase aggregate payments to outpatient departments by approximately 5 percent.

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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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