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 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released findings on a number of its initiatives to reform the healthcare delivery system. These include interim financial results for select Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) initiatives, an in-depth savings analysis for Pioneer ACOs, results from the physician group practice demonstration, and expanded participation in the bundled payments for care improvement initiative. Savings from both the Medicare ACOs and Pioneer ACOs exceed $380 million.
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.
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Oceania Oncology implemented Elekta’s Monaco 5 treatment planning system. Radiation therapy staff at Oceania's clinics in Maroochydore and Bundaberg began training on Monaco 5 in December 2013 and anticipated clinical use to begin in January 2014.
Advanced Radiology Ltd. (ARL) implemented a teleradiology platform by eRAD, subsidiary of RadNet Inc., as part of its growth strategy.
The Academy of Radiology Research thanked Congress for passing the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. This legislation partially repealed sequestration cuts, and may contribute to reversal of cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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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.
RaySearch Laboratories AB has entered into a long-term distribution agreement with Hitachi Medical Corporation. The agreement makes Hitachi fully responsible for marketing, sales and service of RaySearch’s treatment planning system, RayStation, in Japanese markets beginning April 1, 2014.
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.
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Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA) released OmniPro I’mRT + software, a solution for IMRT and rotational pre-treatment plan verification. This solution sets a new efficiency standard within IBA’s software family.
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.
Researchers are seeking to understand what happens inside the living brain after a concussion. In a study published today in PLOS ONE, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University used single photon emission computed tomography (S.P.E.C.T.) to evaluate two ways to measure physiological brain activity in Traumatic Brain Injury (T.B.I.) patients with chronic, mild symptoms.
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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.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Siemens Healthcare’s RT Pro edition, a package of features designed to enhance radiation oncology workflow for Siemens’ Somatom Definition AS Open CT simulator. The RT Pro edition of the Somatom Definition AS Open helps deliver high image quality for all needs in radiation oncology, including large patients, patients with metal implants and those who experience tumor motion.
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.
A paper in the journal of the World Heart Federation, Global Heart, reported mounting evidence of the utility of ultrasound in areas outside its traditional field of cardiology, with increasing use reported in general hospital wards, clinics and pre-hospital environments. The paper is by Associate Professor Bret Nelson and Dr. Amy Sanghvi, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
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.
Experts from the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), in collaboration with the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), released a guideline, Multimodality Imaging Guidelines for Patients With Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography Writing Group, to help optimize lifetime management of patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF).
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.
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), an infection control organization, issued voluntary recommendations regarding physician attire in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. White coats, neckties, and wrist watches can become contaminated and may potentially serve as vehicles to carry germs from one patient to another.