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ECRI Names Top 10 Technology Issues for Hospital Executives to Watch

January 4, 2012 – ECRI, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, listed 10 health technology issues that hospital leaders should have on their watch lists for 2012. The list takes into account critica...

Editor's Choice for Most Innovative New Technology at RSNA 2011

After spending a week walking the show floor and meeting with scores of vendors at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2011 annual meeting, the following are my choices for the most innovative new technologies presented.

GE Introduces First-of-its-Kind Wheel-Mounted Angiography With Fixed-System Image Quality

November 28, 2011 — At RSNA 2011, GE Healthcare unveiled the Discovery IGS 730, the first interventional X-ray system designed to capture the advantages of both floor- and ceiling- mounted systems. With laser-guided motion technology on a motorize...

GE Healthcare’s Vivid q Cardiovascular Ultrasound Selected by NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected GE Healthcare’s Vivid q cardiovascular ultrasound system for delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) on its final space shuttle flight. The Vivid q launched on the sp...

ASE Focus on Rural India Elevates Cardiovascular Ultrasound...
January 12, 2012 — A project led by The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will utilize the latest technological innovations in the field to bring...
FDA Clears Siemens’ Acuson SC2000 Cardiac Ultrasound System
January 11, 2012 – Siemens Healthcare has announced that the version 2.0 of the Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system has received 510(k) clearance...
ECRI Names Top 10 Technology Issues for Hospital Executives...
January 4, 2012 – ECRI, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, listed 10 health technology issues that...
Hitachi Introduces New Dedicated Ultrasound Company at RSNA...
January 3, 2012— In 2011, Hitachi Medical Corp. acquired Aloka Company and formed Hitachi Aloka Medical. The new company exhibited its expanded line of...
FDA Clears Siemens’ Acuson SC2000 Cardiac Ultrasound System
Siemens Healthcare's release 2.0 of the Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system elevates volume imaging in echocardiography,
In 2011, Hitachi Medical Corp. acquired Aloka Company and formed Hitachi Aloka Medical. The company, now the third largest ultrasound...
Mindray Releases DC-T6 Ultrasound System, Upgrades Other Systems
The DC-T6 ultrasound system from Mindray Medical features a high-resolution, 15-inch TFT monitor as well as a swivel and height-adjustable...
Philips Introduces Mobile C-Arm With Flat Detector
December 28, 2011 — Royal Philips Electronics recently introduced the Philips Veradius Neo mobile C-arm with flat detector. The device...
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Editor's Choice for Most Innovative New Technology at...
After spending a week walking the show floor and meeting with scores of vendors at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2011 annual meeting, the...
Advances in Vascular Imaging Systems
Over the last 10 years, hospitals have phased out analog image intensifiers for flat-panel, digital detector angiography systems in their cath labs. As...
High-Quality, Low-Dose CTA Imaging
We are at an inflection point with many aspects of medicine, not the least of which concerns choosing the correct tool to discover and manage coronary artery...
Mobile C-Arm Hybrid OR Solutions
The space needed and costs involved to create a hybrid operating room (OR) for a specific speciality may not be feasible, especially at mid-sized hospitals....

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Newt…Take a Lesson from Radiology
We have entered a time in this country when more powerful is not necessarily better, when we can do...
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X-ray’s Long Courtship With Solid-State Detectors
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MR Patient Comfort Rings in the New Year
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Initial Experience with 3T Wide Bore System in High-Resolution MSK MRI
The presentation is designed to introduce the audience to the new wide bore 3T MRI systems recently brought to market. The new systems offer several advantages including improved field homogeneity,...
Cardiac CT in the Emergency Department: Are You Ready?
Performance of cardiac CT (CCTA) in the emergency department (ED) is rapidly becoming the standard-of-care in patients presenting to the ED with chest pain that are at low to intermediate risk for...
Webinar Explores 3.0T Clinical Cardiac MR
Earn CME credit and learn the latest trends in cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) at 3.0T.  Orignally broadcast  September 8, 2011.  Archive availabe September 16, 2011 until Setpember 16...

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