Radiation Dose Management

Intermountain Launches Nation’s First System to Measure, Report Cumulative Medical Radiation Exposure

Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based nonprofit system of 22 hospitals and 185 clinics, is compiling the cumulative radiation patients receive from about 220,000 higher-dose procedures and imaging exams each year, starting with exams pe...

New Trends and Technology in Radiology

There were several evident trends on the show floor at RSNA 2012, including interest in software fueled by Stage 1 and 2 meaningful use requirements, new mammography solutions and innovations in imaging hardware.

 
Radiation Exposure From Medical Imaging Has Increased, Even at HMOs

July 10, 2012 — A study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) shows that medical imaging is increasing even in health maintenance organization systems (HMOs), which...

Intermountain Launches Nation’s First System to Measure,...
Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based nonprofit system of 22 hospitals and 185 clinics, is compiling the cumulative radiation patients receive from...
Common Drug Can Limit Radiation Damage to Cancer Patient’s...
Unavoidable damage caused to the heart and lungs by radiotherapy treatment of tumors in the chest region can be limited by the administration of an ACE...
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Lower Dose is a Key Selling Point for X-ray Vascular Imaging
There were three key trends in X-ray vascular imaging systems made evident from new products showcased at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)...
Philips Delivers New Innovations to Make Imaging Accessible...
Royal Philips Electronics is introducing three new imaging systems to help radiology departments increase both the number of patients and range of clinical...
ec2 Software Solutions Offer Solutions to Help Navigate the Nuclear Medicine Industry
Nuclear Medicine Information Systems LLC (NMIS) and BioDose LLC have been renamed and rebranded as ec2 Software Solutions. The two
Sectra DoseTrack Offers Complete Solution for Radiation Dose Monitoring
Sectra's complete solution for radiation dose monitoring, Sectra DoseTrack, enables major time and quality gains in medical care, and...
medInt Holdings, LLC, a Healthcare IT company offering enterprise-wide imaging solutions, and Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced...
Radiation Dose Reduction
Ascendian Healthcare Consulting offers enterprise dose reduction solutions. It provides practices with solutions to help them: develop a...
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Intermountain Launches Nation’s First System to Measure,...
Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based nonprofit system of 22 hospitals and 185 clinics, is compiling the cumulative radiation patients receive from...
Common Drug Can Limit Radiation Damage to Cancer Patient’s...
Unavoidable damage caused to the heart and lungs by radiotherapy treatment of tumors in the chest region can be limited by the administration of an ACE...
Siemens, Artis Q.zen
Lower Dose is a Key Selling Point for X-ray Vascular Imaging
There were three key trends in X-ray vascular imaging systems made evident from new products showcased at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)...
SNMMI Launches Online Dose Optimization Resource
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) launched a new online resource for imaging professionals, referring physicians and the public on...

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An Emerging Trend — Patient Satisfaction
Saving lives is no longer enough. Patients need to be satisfied. You might thank the recession for...
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The New Age of Personalized Medicine
We are seeing a semantic shift in medicine, one that is redefining personalized medicine from pie...
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MR “Fingerprinting” Promises Quick Screen for Disease
Only one radiological modality – mammography – is used today for screening. Yet, as America...
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Don’t Miss The Next LIVE Webinar! An Introduction To Cloud-Based Medical Image Exchange
  Seats are limited, register today Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Interested in implementing cloud-based imaging solutions? As a first step, please join DICOM Grid’s Live...
Bedside Radiography-Into the Digital Age
Chip Truwit, MD, offers an overview of Bedside Radiography from a clinical perspective. He will review current radiographic challenges and their effects on bedside imaging, highlighting how new...
Iterative Reconstruction in CT: Understanding and Implementation
Radiation exposure from multidetector CT (MDCT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay and medical publications. Implementation of iterative reconstruction offers radiologists the...

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