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.
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 ...
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
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.
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.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
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.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
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 ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
Healthcare analytics company Innovaccer Inc. announced the launch of its holistic MIPS Platform designed to enable providers to deliver better clinical outcomes. The platform does this by helping providers monitor performances, understand population, efficiently manage data and easily submit it to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) recently announced the first clinical implementation of its Dolphin Online Ready Patient QA (quality assurance) and Monitoring solution in the United Kingdom.
A newly developed breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam protocol, the first of its kind being offered in the Pacific Northwest, is now being performed at Via Radiology in north Seattle.
Blue Earth Diagnostics and Siemens’ PETNET Solutions announced that an increasing number of radiopharmacies will offer Blue Earth Diagnostics’ Axumin (fluciclovine F-18) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent through PETNET’s national network.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams before and after space missions reveal that astronauts' brains compress and expand during spaceflight, according to a University of Michigan study.
Onxeo S.A. and the Institut Curie launched a series of studies on World Cancer Day (Feb. 4) aimed at investigating the benefits of combining radiotherapy, DNA repair inhibitors and immunotherapy. This highly innovative combination would make it possible to reverse the disease in patients suffering from drug-resistant cancers.
In humans, the part of the brain that's responsible for face recognition continues to grow into adulthood, according to a new study published in Science. The results are surprising, since brain development is largely thought to involve synaptic pruning, rather than growth. The ability to recognize faces, which is critical for everyday social interactions, improves from childhood to adulthood.
At the 2016 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, GE Healthcare unveiled Freelium, a magnet technology designed to use 1 percent of liquid helium compared to conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnets. Instead of the average 2,000 liters of precious liquid helium, Freelium is designed to use only about 20 liters.
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