The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) and Bayer today announced an alliance to establish the United States' first-ever statewide radiation dose management repository for patients undergoing certain radiological procedures. The repository will use Radimetrics™, a radiation and contrast dose management and analytics tool which provides clinicians with data needed for them to help ensure their patients receive the lowest radiation dosage necessary.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL ― March 30, 2017 ― IDS, the cloud health information management services company, today announced Women’s Imaging Associates, a premier teleradiology firm located in Birmingham, Alabama, has implemented AbbaDox RIS including its speech recognition and reporting platform. The system is now live, supporting a full range of screening and diagnostic imaging services the group performs for nearly two dozen healthcare delivery organizations throughout the U.S. including hospitals, radiology groups and outpatient centers.

The rise of artificial intelligence throughout medicine, including in radiology, gets the literary equivalent of a diagnostic workup in the April 3 issue of The New Yorker.

When women are recalled from screening mammography for additional imaging, they may soon be as likely to get scanned with automated ultrasound as with handheld, for European researchers have found similar performance between the two. 

Researchers from multiple institutions have combined two methods of cancer detection to develop a new method in producing personalized breast cancer treatments. 

Levine Cancer Institute launched the first mobile lung CT unit to provide cancer screening to rural communities in North and South Carolina, two states with above-average rates of lung cancer diagnosis.

Reinterpretation of community breast studies by a specialized cancer center yielded a change in interpretation in some 28 percent of studies submitted for a second opinion during a four-month period, according to findings published online March 16 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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