August 13, 2009 - BRIT UrgentWorks is showing at AHRA 2009 its critical results reporting and discordance tool harnesses the power of browser-based technologies to support the flagging of urgent findings and critical test results by reporting clinicians and the immediate communication and on-going tracking of results to the ordering physician.
August 13, 2009 - Kubtec showed at AHRA 2009 the XPERT 20, a compact digital cabinet X-ray system to the KUBTEC line of specimen radiography systems.
August 13, 2009 - Carestream Health Inc. will spotlight its new generation of RIS/PACS at AHRA in booth 509.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
August 12, 2009 - The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) top medical-device regulator, Daniel Schultz, M.D., director of the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, announced his resignation.
August 12, 2009 – Sapheneia’s Clarity CT Solution software reduced CT radiation dose for patients by up to 50 percent, according to initial results from an on-going partnership with Washington Hospital Center, in Washington, D.C. designed to materially reduce CT radiation dose for patients by using Sapheneia’s software.
August 12, 2009 - The second of three centers in ProUroCare Medical's FDA clinical study of the ProUroScan imaging system has completed its portion of the study.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
August 12, 2009 - Invivo Corp. launches DynaTRIM, a first-of-its-kind fully MR compatible interventional device for Trans-Rectal Interventional MR (TRIM) biopsy of the prostate gland.
Aug 12, 2009 - The Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted to recommend to the FDA GE Healthcare’s DaTSCAN (Ioflupane I 123 Injection), which is used with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).
August 12, 2009 – Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, collaborating with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, have developed a tool for virtual surgery that allows heart surgeons to view the predicted effects of different surgical approaches by manipulating 3D cardiac MRIs of a patient's specific anatomy.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
August 12, 2009 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) wants to make it clear that "[a]ny information that ACR has offered its support or opposition to HR 3200 is incorrect," according to a statement issued on the ACR Web site.
August 12, 2009 - There are higher rates of both osteoporosis and nonpathologic fractures for men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer using androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT).
August 12, 2009 - Shimadzu Medical Systems USA will debut the Mobile Art Evolution 12 and the convertible-to-digital DR Mobile Art Evolution 32 in booth 815 at the AHRA Annual Meeting being held in Las Vegas, Nev., from August 9-13, 2009.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
August 11, 2009 - The first hospital group in Turkey to offer cancer patients advanced RapidArc radiotherapy treatments has acquired four additional treatment machines from Varian Medical Systems.
August 11, 2009 - Viztek, a radiology solution provider, has been selected by In Her Image, West Caldwell, NJ, to provide In Her Image, a women’s imaging center, has llicensed Viztek’s PACS, RIS, and billing solutions for its new facility set to open within the next month.
August 11, 2009 - Despite a hurried rise in robotic urological surgery in the past 10 years as hospitals try to stay competitive in offering patients the latest technology, no standardized training or credentialing process is in place to test surgeon competency and safety with the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System, leaving many patients and medical centers at risk for error and injury.
August 10, 2009 – The number of oncologists that anticipate adoption an electronic medical record (EMR) in the next year was around 45 percent, in study conducted by Epocrates Inc., a clinical information and decision support tools developer.
August 10, 2009 - Aspyra Inc.
August 10, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare offers ‘Meaningful Use’ roadmaps and quality reporting tools to help healthcare providers achieve Health IT ‘Meaningful Use’ criteria, under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA).
August 10, 2009 – Canon U.S.A. Inc.
Aug 10, 2009 - To help hospitals and imaging centers start new or build upon existing patient safety and quality care programs, AHRA is holding for the second year its Putting Patients First grant program.
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