June 24, 2009 - The Medipattern Corp. reported that Long Island Radiology Associates (LIRA) has entered into a B-CAD-FOR-LIFE contract, in which B-CAD-FOR-LIFE will provide breast computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) to all seven of LIRA's facilities in the greater New York City area and on Long Island.
June 23, 2009 - INFINITT North America reported that 2009 sales volume in the U.S. has exceeded sales volume for any two consecutive quarters to date.
June 23, 2009 - A recent survey on imaging equipment usage showed that in rural areas of the U.S. 261 imaging systems in 46 centers (using current Medicare assumptions) operate only 48 percent of the time, compared to equipment in non-rural areas operates 56 percent of the time a center is open for business.
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June 23, 2009 - On June 11, 2009 57 members of Congress sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him “to reject arbitrary cuts to imaging services or changes to the utilization rate assumption.”
June 23, 2009 - On June 20, 2009, the American College of Radiology Education Center, “radiology’s classroom of the future,” reported that more than 800 physicians attended to experience hands-on training, with individual workstations, using the imaging software of their choice during the first 12 months.
June 23, 2009 - On June 12, 2009, FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc., announced that Amerinet, one of the leading healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the United States, added Synapse cardiovascular and Synapse RIS to its existing Fujifilm contracts.
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June 23, 2009 - The positron emission tomography (PET) core laboratory of the American College of Radiology Clinical Research Center serves a critical role ensuring images and image data from PET scanners used in multicenter clinical trial research meet acceptable standards according to a paper published online June 12 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
June 22, 2009 - U-Systems, a dedicated breast ultrasound systems manufacturer, together with Medical Director Jessica A. Guingrich, M.D., of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Susan G.
June 22, 2009 - CIVCO Medical Solutions is now offering the L25 Series Needle Guide, transverse needle guides are designed for use with SonoSite’s L25 transducer series for MicroMaxx, S Series and M-Turbo systems.
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June 22, 2009 - GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with the Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network (SWODIN) to expand its existing Diagnostic Imaging Repository (DI-r), anchored by Centricity Enterprise Archive, to the participating hospitals in Waterloo-Wellington and Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant Local Health Integrated Networks (LHIN).
June 22, 2009 - Diagnostic radiology specialty networks are responsible for directing 44 percent of workers’ compensation patients seen by the imaging centers, and for 18 percent of patients with health insurance, according to a survey of 140 independent U.S.-based imaging centers conducted by Lead Generation Solutions and commissioned by One Call Medical.
June 19, 2009 - Increased utilization of advanced medical imaging, such as CT and MRI, between 1991 and 2004 improved life expectancy rates by a significant factor, actually greater than the increases in mortality caused by obesity over the same timeframe, according to a recent study conducted by Columbia University professor Frank Lichtenberg, Ph.D.
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June 19, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected Theodore Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., FASTRO, and William Shipley, M.D., FASTRO, as its 2009 Gold Medal recipients, the highest honor that ASTRO bestows. Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Shipley will be presented with their awards at the Gold Medal Ceremony being held November 3, 2009, at 10:45 a.m.
June 18, 2009 – aycan Medical systems announced the installation of an advanced RIS/PACS system at Rural Radiology of Bemidji in Minn., providing best in class turn-key solution to its customers, said aycan.
June 18, 2009 - Calypso Medical Technologies announced the publication of three new studies investigating the role of the Calypso 4D Localization System in guiding immediate adjustments to radiation delivery in response to tumor motion, a concept known as real-time adaptive radiation treatment.
June 19, 2009 – Medtronic Inc. today said it received CE (Conformité Européenne) mark for the company's second-generation pacemaker designed, tested, approved for use as labeled with MRI machines, the Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system. The Advisa MRI SureScan pacing system currently is not available for sale in the U.S.
June 19, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) is set to hold its fourth annual scientific meeting, July 16-19, 2009 in Orlando, Fla.
June 19, 2009 - Barco has won a substantial order for the supply of medical displays for a new PACS system to be installed at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Japan.
June 18, 2009 – MedCentral Health System just launched Siemens new knowledge-driven, healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures, enabled by the REMIND (Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Non-structured Data) Platform.
June 18, 2009 - Researchers at the Heart and Vascular Institute and the Imaging Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio said stress imaging remains the most acceptable noninvasive technique for diagnosis of in-stent restenosis (ISR) based on a meta-analysis using available studies to determine the diagnostic efficacy of 64-slice computed tomography (CT) in evaluation of ISR.