The American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors (BOC) selected three innovators as 2019 Gold Medalists for their extraordinary service to the College or radiology. Honors will be bestowed during the ACR 2019 Annual Meeting, to be held May 18–22, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
Carri Glide-Hurst, Ph.D., director of translational research, radiation oncology at Henry Ford Health System, describes ...
Body Vision Medical, a medical device company specializing in lung cancer diagnostics, announced the launch of its LungVision platform. The platform will be presented at the CHEST conference, Oct. 7-10 in San Antonio, Texas.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
Like low-hanging cyber fruit, hospitals are ripe for plucking. And hackers have already started the harvest. A 12-month ...
When Cullman Regional Medical Center in Alabama decided to switch from 2-D to 3-D mammography, they knew they needed to ...
“Patient-centered care” is a popular term among those in the healthcare industry in the 21st century. It means the patient is part of their own healthcare team helping to make decisions, and they are made as comfortable as possible throughout the process. Vendors are starting to adopt this approach for mammography, arguably the most critical tool for detecting breast cancer.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
Carri Glide-Hurst, Ph.D., and Benjamin Movsas, M.D., discuss Henry Ford Hospital's involvement in a national clinical ...
At the 2018 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, Nov. 26-30 in Chicago, Agfa HealthCare will introduce the MUSICA Workstation, which is designed to support a customer-driven workflow for imaging departments. Developed in close cooperation with technologists, it serves as the “nerve center” of the imaging environment, offering a single, intuitive interface for smooth, efficient digital and computed general radiography (DR and CR), fluoroscopy, mammography and full leg/full spine (FLFS) imaging.
It has been nearly eight years since the world’s first digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) mammography technology was introduced to market to address the limitations of conventional 2-D imaging, and since then, there have been various technological advancements made to DBT.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
Research advancements related to usage of radiation oncology in breast cancer and emphasis on quality care along with support from governments are expected to bring significant transformation in the oncology information management system (OIMS) industry.
Investigating inside the human body often requires cutting open a patient or swallowing long tubes with built-in cameras. But what if physicians could get a better glimpse in a less expensive, less invasive and less time-consuming manner?
Miami Cancer Institute, a part of Baptist Health South Florida, is a state-of-the-art center that serves as the primary destination for patients from the Southeast U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
Here is a checklist of dose-sparing practices for cardiac computed tomography (CT) imaging used in the cath lab. This ...
RaySearch Laboratories AB has released RayCare 2B, the latest version of its oncology information system (OIS). RayCare is designed to support the workflow in a modern oncology center, connecting the different oncology disciplines, boosting efficiency and ensuring optimal use of resources.
Fujifilm SonoSite Inc. announced its entry into the medical informatics space with the launch of a robust point-of-care workflow solution, SonoSite Synchronicity. The software is designed specifically for point-of-care ultrasound to streamline and standardize clinical workflow while delivering administrative efficiencies with flexible credentialing tools.
Image Diagnostics has entered into a product development agreement with ECLS Inc. to design a new radiation shield expected to debut at the 2018 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2018 annual meeting, Nov. 26-30 in Chicago. The radiation shield, conceptualized by ECLS founder James Goldstein, M.D., cardiologist at Royal Oak Michigan’s Beaumont Hospital, is expected to address the adverse health effects of radiation exposure and the strain of long-term wear of protective lead during interventional surgery.
One by one, medical software systems become more interconnected, robust and helpful. In particular, many efforts are put ...
According to BreastCancer.org, an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2018, along with 63,960 new cases of in situ breast cancer. About 1 in 8 U.S. women — around 12.4 percent — will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
Enterprise imaging has been a hot topic in radiology and healthcare information technology (IT) circles for the last several years as medical image acquisition has moved beyond the exclusive purview of radiology.
Leica Biosystems announced the U.S. launch of MammoPort, the first integrated specimen containment and transport system for breast tissue biopsies.
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