The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new document detailing best practices for retaining patient mammography records in response to ongoing confusion from some mammography facilities, according to the agency.
February 13, 2017 — aycan recently introduced ayDCE software powered by aycan workstation. The new software helps ...
Vital Images Inc. announced that it will be demonstrating new image sharing capabilities for current Vital customers at the 2017 annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Feb. 19-23 in Orlando, Fla. The solution allows users to share images from different types of media between providers, hospitals and patients.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
February 13, 2017 — Radiologist Greg Rose, M.D., Ph.D., has joined Strategic Radiology LLC, as its chief medical officer ...
Lung cancer screening rates remained very low and unchanged among eligible populations in 2015, despite recommendations that high-risk current and former smokers be screened. The study by American Cancer Society investigators appears in JAMA Oncology. The authors say it underscores the need to educate clinicians and those at risk about lung cancer screening.
With the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual meeting (HIMSS17) scheduled for Feb. 19-23 in Orlando, Fla., Logicalis Healthcare Solutions outlined five of the top cybersecurity issues currently faced by healthcare chief information officers (CIOs).
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
Rep. Tom Price was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by a 52-47 vote early Friday morning.
February 10, 2017 — A new method for screening women with dense breast tissue may potentially save thousands of lives by ...
Independent market research consultancy Robust Insight recently conveyed a survey commissioned by IBA on the state of the proton therapy market entering 2017. The report is based on an online survey among 1,200 hospitals in order to assess how they view proton therapy today and in the future.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
Vital Images Inc. will feature its Vitrea Modular Enterprise Imaging interoperability solutions at the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual meeting (HIMSS 2017), Feb. 20–23 in Orlando, Fla.
February 9, 2017 — Breast cancer patients with dense fibroglandular breast tissue have almost a two-fold increased risk ...
Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, whose research aided the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the 1970s, passed away Feb. 8 at the age of 83.
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eHealth Technologies and HealtheConnections, a Syracuse-based regional health information organization (RHIO) supporting health information exchange (HIE) for the 11 counties of central and northern New York, have teamed up to share medical images across the care provider community.
A new study published in Cancer Epidemiology: Biomarkers & Prevention found that women who had a false positive result from a screening mammogram were more likely to delay or forgo their subsequent screening mammogram than women who had a true negative result.
February 9, 2017 — A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that radiation therapy followed by ...
Limiting lung cancer screening to high-risk former smokers may improve cost-effectiveness at a population level, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine.
Out-of-pocket expenditures are thought to be a significant barrier to receiving cancer preventive services, especially for individuals of lower socioeconomic status. A new study looks at how the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which eliminated such out-of-pocket expenditures, has affected the use of mammography and colonoscopy. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study found that use of mammography, but not colonoscopy, increased after the ACA.
New research reports that the number of articles within radiology journals designated as dealing with patient-centered care has increased substantially in recent years. However, a very limited number of radiology journals have published multiple original research articles on the topic. The study, supported by research grants from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, is published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
People with Parkinson’s disease and cognitive impairment have disruptions in their brain networks that can be seen on a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), according to a study appearing online in the journal Radiology.
February 7, 2017 — In December, IntellaPACS LLC announced its corporate name change to Emergent Connect LLC. As of Jan ...