MD Buyline’s Market Intelligence Briefing recognized Carestream’s DRX Systems for the fourth quarter of 2013. Carestream’s wireless DRX detectors are “the core products that live in portable, fixed and standalone X-ray units in a retrofit capacity or integrated with new systems,” according to the report.

The Integrated Department of Diagnostic Services at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) deployed a real-time radiology peer review and quality assurance platform. Four hospitals went live Oct. 7, 2013 with the cross-institutional, cross-system, prospective peer review platform. The software platform can help physicians correct mistakes before a patient's diagnostic report is finalized.

Advanced Radiology Ltd. (ARL) implemented a teleradiology platform by eRAD, subsidiary of RadNet Inc., as part of its growth strategy.

Varian Medical Systems and the Algerian Ministry of Health (MOH) will provision six cancer treatment centers with $51 million of advanced technology for radiotherapy and radiosurgery. Varian will also establish a local regional training and education center.

AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management and Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. announced seven recipients of the sixth annual Putting Patients First grant program. Recipients were judged on their program plan and ability to share best practices for improving patient care and safety in CT, MR, ultrasound, X-ray and vascular imaging.

Physicians may be able to identify premature infants at-risk for deficits using 3-D MRI imaging techniques developed by clinician scientists at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital. The imaging technique could enable early neuroprotective therapies and help determine if they are effective in a matter of weeks, instead of the two to five years previously required.

Varian Medical Systems has entered into a three-year agreement worth an estimated $515 million to supply medical imaging components to Toshiba Medical Systems for integration into imaging equipment for the global market. Orders will be booked over the period of the agreement.

KLAS spoke to 176 providers to identify strengths and weaknesses of best-of-breed and enterprise vendors and found the two competitive, according to the report Oncology 2013: Eyes Wide Open.

Biotronik enrolled the first patients in an expansion of their ongoing ProMRI trial to test its pacemaker system.Phase A of the study evaluated the safety of current Biotronik pacemaker systems during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans with exclusion zones of the chest area, and was completed on November 18, 2013.

A paper in World Heart Federation’s journal Global Heart advocates for the inclusion of ultrasound in medical education programs to fully realize its benefits as early as possible. The review is by J. Christian Fox, professor of clinical emergency medicine and director of instructional ultrasound, University of California Irvine School of Medicine and colleagues.