April 15, 2009 - Based on its recent analysis of the U.S. PET and PET/CT markets, Frost & Sullivan awarded Zecotek Photonics Inc. with its 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology.
April 15, 2009 - Scranton Gillette Communications, located in Arlington Heights, IL, has agreed to acquire the assets of Imaging Technology News and Diagnostic & Invasive Cardiology from Reilly Communications Group, located in Schaumburg, IL. Imaging Technology News provides technology solutions for medical imaging and radiation oncology professionals with a circulation of 35,000.
April 15, 2009 - Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have shown that they can determine after a single cycle of chemotherapy whether the drugs are killing the cancer or not using a PET/CT scanner.
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April 15, 2009 - SNM is making history by becoming the first medical association in America to launch a “virtual march” on Capitol Hill to raise awareness among policymakers about the benefits of molecular imaging with the goal of ensuring that patients have access to medical imaging such as PET/CT and SPECT/CT. It takes three steps to join the march: 1. Go to www.MIMarchforHealth.org.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. needs to reform its healthcare system if it is to fulfill its Medicare obligations and for American companies to stay competitive in the world economy. Greenspan was a keynote speaker during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference April 8 in Chicago.
April 14, 2009 – MedCurrent Corp. today released a new version of its MedCurrent Verify, a Web-based insurance eligibility verification tool.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
April 14, 2009 – Bienville Orthopaedic specialists in Ocean Springs, MS, and Mountain Valley Orthopedics in East Stroudsburg, PA. selected NovaRad’s NovaPACS for its affordability and the availability of integrated orthopedic trauma tools and templates.
April 14, 2009 - Abstract submissions are due on May 11, 2009, for the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC 2009), which will be held from Sep. 23-26 in Montreal. The current rate of submission suggests that WMIC 2009 will receive more abstracts than for WMIC 2008. The group is using a new submission system, Abstract Central, a ScholarOne product.
Gammex’s new 464-ACTS automated CT software is designed to provide automated data analysis for the ACR accreditation CT Phantom 464. The software will reportedly help medical physicists significantly reduce their time spent analyzing the results of the scan by providing results in report form which will allow the physicist to simplify and speed up the quality control process.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
April 14, 2009 – Virtual Radiologic Corp. gained FDA clearance for its vRad PACS solution. Virtual Radiologic, a teleradiolgy company, will roll out the software to its affiliated radiologists over the next several months, gradually replacing the commercial software it currently licenses.
April 13, 2009 - SenoRx Inc. released an additional model of its SenoSonix System.
April 13, 2009 — According to Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), its annual show last week drew an estimated 27,500 attendees.
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April 13, 2009 - Accuray Inc. said that the second European Radiosurgery Workshop yielded record attendance with more than twice the number of attendees compared to the previous year. The event was held last moth at the University Hospital of Charite in Berlin, Germany.
April 10, 2009 - Xoft Inc said that it has been granted a medical device license by the Medical Devices Bureau of Health Canada to sell and market the Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy System.
Vioguard has developed the first self-disinfecting computer keyboard specifically designed to help reduce the spread of preventable infections.
April 9, 2009 - U-Systems selected Medidata Rave as its standard for electronic data capture (EDC) to perform the SOMO-INSIGHT clinical study of an automated breast imaging ultrasound system for early detection of breast cancer.
April 9, 2009 - Radiologists have developed a computer-based model that aids them in discriminating between benign and malignant breast lesions, according to a study performed at the University Of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI.
April 9, 2009 -Physicians can dramatically reduce the radiation dose delivered to patients undergoing coronary CT angiography in a "triple rule-out" protocol by simply using tube current modulation, according to a study performed at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.
April 9, 2009 - A fundamental issue facing healthcare worldwide is tying fragmented information and data silos together to increase intelligence, and Initiate Interoperable Health solutions showcased its vendor-neutral “middleware” to bridge disparate data during HIMSS 2009 in Chicago this week.
April 9, 2009 – Vital Images recently announced the results of an independent survey of nearly 2,400 U.S. hospitals with more than 100 beds, which showed Vital Images continues to be the market share leader among 3D imaging vendors.
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