Elekta and Philips announced the installation of a third high-field (1.5 Tesla) magnetic resonance-guided linear accelerator (MR-linac) system at University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands.
June 6, 2016 — Infinitt North America announced recently that the 2015/2016 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services ...
A new report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) details the training process for its 200-plus inspectors that perform the annual inspections of over 8,700 mammography facilities.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging platform will be on display at the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2016 annual meeting, which takes place June 29 - July 1 in Portland, Ore.
June 3, 2016 — Novocure announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its investigational ...
According to data from a new survey, nearly all of the nation’s hospitals have adopted certified electronic health records (EHRs). The survey was released at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) 2016 annual meeting, May 31-June 2 in Washington, D.C.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
A global team of scientists have shown that the brains of patients with schizophrenia have the capacity to reorganize and fight the illness. This is the first time that imaging data has been used to show that our brains may have the ability to reverse the effects of schizophrenia.
June 3, 2016 — Elekta announced that its Leksell Gamma Knife Icon radiosurgery system has been cleared for clinical use ...
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear imaging technology (also referred to as molecular imaging) that enables ...
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
Artec 3D, a developer and manufacturer of professional 3-D hardware and software, announced the release of Artec Studio 11.
June 2, 2016 — Physicians have long used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect cancer, but a new study describes ...
University Hospitals in Cleveland recently held a ceremony to mark the completion of its new $30 million proton therapy center, the first in the state of Ohio.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
June 2, 2016 — Lexmark International announced the availability of several new and enhanced enterprise imaging and ...
June 2, 2016 — VirtaMed introduced the ArthroS Hip Module at the EFORT Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, June 1-3. The ...
Intelerad Medical Systems announced the launch of Panorama, a zero-footprint enterprise viewer that provides seamless access to all medical images from any location at any time.
June 1, 2016 — Alzeca Biosciences announced successful preliminary results for ADx, its novel, proprietary diagnostic ...
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will host its 27th Annual Scientific Sessions, June 10-14, 2016, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.
Predictions are usually based less on what will come than what has been. They are projections of the recent past. That realization makes me a little bit nervous when it comes to enterprise imaging.
In recent years, intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) has been growing in acceptance in the U.S. as an alternative to traditional external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) for patients with early-stage breast cancer. For patients meeting appropriate selection criteria, the benefits are clear — shorter treatment times, added convenience, lower costs and fewer complications.[1, 2]
“Presentism” is the idea and adherence to view current situations as inevitable and as status quo. Consider your medical imaging operations and the business requirements for further optimization and integration — they will be successful if you can chart where you are currently and navigate to the desired objective, which may or may not be enterprise imaging.
June 06, 2016 