The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting patients who had mammograms at Richard D. Adelman, M.D., Family Medicine in Raleigh, North Carolina, about possible problems with the quality of their mammograms. The alert applies to patients who had mammograms any time after Aug. 24, 2012.

Archiving capabilities and vendor neutrality are relatively simple concepts to understand, but the overarching clinical, business, and operational benefits of a vendor neutral archive (VNA) are less intuitive. The versatility of a VNA solution can be leveraged as a cornerstone of an overall enterprise imaging strategy and further. A VNA offers value to a range of initiatives from a simple archiving solution to a complete Enterprise Imaging Transformation. 
 

Samsung Electronics America Inc. has partnered with Heart Across America to host the Heart Across America cycling tour, aimed at increasing awareness on how to prevent heart disease and stroke.

ThinkTank Technologies announced the availability of their state-of-the-art endoscope imaging system, SweetVision HD. The system provides doctors the ability to utilize their own rigid and fiber optic endoscope to capture high-definition and high-quality video during examinations and to perform a variety of other scope procedures.


What’s healthy? What’s not? These questions should be easy to answer in our world of high-tech, high-resolution scanners. But population-based studies demonstrate they are anything but.
A comparison between mammography vs. molecular breast imaging (MBI).
A comparison of breast cancer seen on mammography vs. molecular breast imaging (MBI).

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in developed countries.[1] It is estimated that about 12 percent of women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime and more than 200,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in 2015.[2] It is important to know the risks and warning signs of breast cancer, and having the benefit of early detection is invaluable, but sometimes that’s easier said than done.
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Of all the departments in a hospital, radiology arguably holds the most and richest variety of data. There’s so much data, in fact, that it can be difficult to know what to do with it all and how to handle it. As the healthcare industry continues to shift toward a value-based payment model, utilizing that data becomes even more important as hospitals take a look at their operations and try to improve their performance. For radiology departments struggling with information overload, business analytics can provide a solution. 
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