NewYork-Presbyterian, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), is expanding its fleet of Mobile Stroke Treatment Units (MSTU) to Queens and Brooklyn. Thanks to a generous donation by the W.P. Carey Foundation, this makes NewYork-Presbyterian the first health system in the country to operate three of these advanced units.
Whole-body magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) found a surprisingly high prevalence of atherosclerosis in people considered at low to intermediate risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study appearing online in the journal Radiology. Almost half of all study participants had at least one narrowed artery.
June 8, 2018 — Zebra Medical Vision unveiled its Textray chest X-ray research, which will form the basis for a future ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
IsoRay Inc. announced the upcoming release of its Build-Blu delivery system for real-time prostate brachytherapy.
A new report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discusses the continued quality, safety and effectiveness of servicing of medical devices by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and third-party entities.

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Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. announced the release of AeroRemote Insights, a cloud-based, business intelligence and analytics solution. AeroRemote Insights delivers detailed information on asset utilization, department workflow and efficiency, system health and more. The solution provides daily performance data in intuitive visual formats that managers can utilize to optimize department performance and manage digital radiography (DR) assets. This new service also enables managers to act on urgent situations immediately and respond to usage trends intelligently.
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
Philips announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Ingenia Elition 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) solution and two clinical applications, Philips Compressed Sense and 3D APT. This integrated suite of innovations enables clinicians to perform exams up to 50 percent faster [1], increase diagnostic confidence and improve the patient experience.
A combination of digital mammography and tomosynthesis detects 90 percent more breast cancers than digital mammography ...
June 5, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Biograph Vision, a new positron emission ...
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
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Breast imaging technologies have evolved rapidly in the last two decades to help physicians detect breast cancers at an ...
Value-based care and patient satisfaction are top priorities of radiologists across the field, from imaging ...
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The power to predict a cardiac arrest, support a clinical diagnosis or nudge a provider when it is time to issue ...
A regional image exchange system is saving lives and reducing radiology costs in Maryland by improving the efficiency ...
Sharon Gibbs, director of the radiology department at VCU Health in Richmond, Va., aims to provide quality, timely and efficient care. To do so, she must define, analyze and track the metrics and quality needs of her large care providing team, which consists of more than 40 faculty radiologists, over 200 technologists and numerous other stakeholders.
The PACS — picture archiving and communication systems — have been in existence for more than 45 years. One of the first was created in 1972 by Richard J. Steckel, M.D., and the large-scale introduction occurred 10 years later at the University of Kansas. In the early ’90s, U.K. physician Harold Glass, M.D., pioneered the use of PACS to transform London’s Hammersmith Hospital into the first filmless hospital in the United Kingdom.
Treatment planning systems are at the heart of radiation therapy (RT) systems and the key to improved patient outcomes ...
At SIIM 2018, Alexander J. Towbin, M.D., Radiologist, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Neil D. Johnson Chair of Radiology Informatics, Associate Chief of Radiology Informatics, at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, discusses the meaning of patient engagement and describes some of the patient engagement initiatives that that he has seen successfully implemented in various practices.
Nuclear imaging and its various modalities have long played an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous ...
Last November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance for medical imaging vendors on the ...