Medicine supposedly aches for a universal viewer, one that can satisfy the needs of every physician — cardiologist, radiologist, dermatologist, orthopedist; and display its images on whatever device — laptop, desktop, tablet or smartphone.
With increased use of computed tomography (CT) scans, radiologists and other experts — including Donald Frush, M.D., medical director of the Duke Medical Radiation Center and a co-author of a new World Health Organization (WHO) report — are urging awareness and accountability around medical scans for children.
The global market for contrast media injectors is set to increase from $830 million in 2015 to almost $1.8 billion by 2022, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
May 3, 2016 — Good news for clinicians and their patients: the evaluation of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function ...
Mirada Medical announced it will showcase its latest solutions for radiotherapy, including RTx and Workflow Box, at the European Society for Radiation Oncology (ESTRO) 2016 Congress, April 29-May 2 in Torino, Italy.
Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc. announced its All-Inclusive Service and Support Program for its Premium Performance Scenaria SE 64/128-slice computed tomography (CT) system.
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have collaborated with physicians and medical geneticists around the world to create the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations.
May 2, 2016 — Elekta announced that Monaco version 5.11, the latest update to its treatment planning software, is ...
In light of the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Agfa HealthCare is using its Fast Forward to DR Program to help health systems using film and computed radiography (CR) to cost-effectively upgrade their facilities to digital radiography (DR) technology.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
Bayer announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Gadavist (gadobutrol) injection for use with magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) to evaluate known or suspected supra-aortic or renal artery disease.
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MD Buyline market analyst Jon Brubaker explains the new cardiac ultrasound technologies and trends he saw on the show ...
Aycan is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month with the introduction of a new productivity and security feature for aycan web HTML5 DICOM Viewer tool for sharing images with referring physicians, technologists and team members.
Elekta announced that its high-field MR-guided linear accelerator (MR-linac) platform will be the focal point of seven scientific presentations at ESTRO 35, the annual meeting of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology.
April 29, 2016 — The Radiation Oncology Institute (ROI) is encouraging researchers to apply for competitive grants ...
Adopting medical technology because it is new or novel lost its luster a long time ago. It is little wonder then that positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance (PET/MR) has traveled such a bumpy road since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first PET/MR product in 2011.
With the Internet bringing all of the world’s collective knowledge to their fingertips, patients are more informed than ...
After five years of almost constant lobbying efforts and numerous attempts by the U.S. House to push through a repeal of the medical device tax, legislation passed in December suspends the tax for the next two years. President Barack Obama signed a $1.8 billion taxation and spending bill Dec. 18, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, ending the threat of a looming government shutdown. The bill also contained a variety of tax credits, including the two-year moratorium on the device tax.
A person’s healthcare records contain a wealth of sensitive information. This doesn’t involve just their medical history, but it also contains a fairly comprehensive range of facts about them as an individual. Healthcare records will likely have an address, they may have information about relatives, they could have a social security number and other identifiers, and they are going to contain financial information.