Investments in healthcare infrastructure within BRIC countries are expected to play a significant role in the future growth of the patient monitoring devices market, as medical facilities aspire to achieve Western standards of care, states new research by GBI Research.
eHealth Technologies and HealtheConnections have gone live with eHealth Connect Image Exchange integrated with their new, Mirth HIE platform. HealtheConnections has been a customer of eHealth Connect Image Exchange since 2010 and this service was deemed as an essential capability to retain, with their new HIE platform.
UltraSPECT, a leading provider of nuclear medicine (NM) image reconstruction technology that reduces radiopharmaceutical dose and acquisition time, announced the installation of its proprietary Wide Beam Reconstruction (WBR) software at nearly ten healthcare facilities. These installations come as a result of the recent agreement between UltraSPECT and radiopharmaceutical provider PharmaLogic, under which PharmaLogic is offering the WBR software as part of its patient-centered approach. In just a short time, PharmaLogic has successfully approached dozens of NM imaging facilities about the advanced WBR software which improves patient safety and technologist safety, while providing higher efficiency and optimum image quality.
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June 26 marked the 90th anniversary of the founding of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and a celebration of nine decades of work by ACR members, leadership and staff to make medicine better by advancing the science of radiology, educating radiology professionals, positively influencing health care policy and improving quality of care.
Cerebral aneurysms of all sizes—even small ones below seven millimeters—are 12 times more likely to rupture if they are growing in size, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
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Despite concerns to the contrary, very little of the variation in Emergency Department (ED) imaging utilization is attributable to physician experience, training or gender, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
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Carestream has again earned a top rating against major competitors for its digital X-ray systems that are based on its proven wireless DRX technology. As reported by KLAS in its just published “Digital X-Ray Performance 2013 — Impact of a Wireless Workflow,” the company’s Carestream DRX-Evolution scored highest for overall performance.
On May 15, 2013, Medical Insight released EasyViz 5.0 — the latest version of their diagnostic imaging solution — as well as EasyViz Enterprise Web — a zero-footprint enterprise image viewer that sets a new standard for mobility, speed and functionality of enterprise image solutions.
Royal Philips and Georgia Regents Medical Center (GRMC), Georgia’s public academic health center renowned for its top-ranked doctors,announced a 15-year alliance to enable increasingly patient-centered approaches to care and to create an innovative business model that addresses current and future clinical, operational and equipment needs of GRMC’s multiple sites.
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IMRIS Inc. reported that Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is crediting intraoperative MRI (iMRI) within the VISIUS Surgical Theatre with reducing returns to the operating room for residual tumor removal by 84 percent over 2 years.
Kettering Medical Center in Ohio recently began installing Versa HD, an advanced linear accelerator (linac) system designed to improve patient care and treat a wide range of tumors throughout the body. Kettering, a regional center of excellence in stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for indications throughout the body, also operates a Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion system dedicated for SRS in the brain.
The distribution of white matter brain abnormalities in some patients after mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) closely resembles that found in early Alzheimer’s dementia, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
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QSUM Biopsy Disposables, LLC received a new patent for the AccuFit MRI Coil draping provided for various breast imaging coils. This is QSUM’s Fourth patent.
MRS (Mammography Reporting System Inc.) has earned the top ranking in the Mammography Information Systems (MIS) vendor category in the newly released KLAS report entitled Women's Imaging 2013: Measuring the Options. The Women’s Imaging 2013 report is an independent overview of industry trends and advancements among key vendors conducted by KLAS, which is an independent research firm that is widely recognized in the healthcare industry.
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Unisyn Medical Technologies Inc. announced the sale of its Transactional business to GE Healthcare, including its ultrasound probe repair, multi-modality part and proprietary test equipment businesses.
GE Healthcare announced that it has agreed to acquire certain Mammography assets of Rayence, a subsidiary of Vatech Co. Ltd., a Korean X-Ray manufacturer. The Mammography assets of Rayence will, at closing, become part of the Detection and Guidance Solutions (DGS) business unit of GE Healthcare.
Digisonics will exhibit its No. 1 KLAS rated cardiology picture archive and communications system (PACS) and structured reporting solutions at this year’s American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Scientific Sessions in Minneapolis, Minn.
More than 54 companies will display their latest products and services at the American Society of Echocardiography’s (ASE) 24th Annual Scientific Sessions, planned for June 29-July 2 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minn. This year, the conference theme is “a disease-based focus on the role of echocardiography in diagnosis and guiding therapy”.
June 25, 2013 — Siemens Healthcare announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Virtual Touch imaging ultrasound application, Siemens’ first commercially available implementation of Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) technology.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be an effective way to diagnose mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, according to experts from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.