SC360 proton treatment system

Austrian ion beam therapy center MedAustron will be the first center globally to employ a new tandem solution from BEC GmbH and medPhoton for accurate patient positioning during ion beam therapy.

Technology expertise within the IT department is not a sufficient skillset to ensure successful implementation of an Enterprise Imaging Platform. IT not only needs to understand the underlying technology of the vendor product, but how that technology will integrate with every other technology within the organization. Add to this the need to understand the impact on clinical, operational, and technical workflows, tight timelines, and no tolerance for budget overruns and you have a very complex environment to manage. 

As their patient imaging storage requirements grew exponentially larger, Sentara Healthcare’s IT team looked to the future of image management beyond radiology. They are implementing an enterprise imaging strategy underpinned by Mach7 Enterprise Imaging Platform. 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released recommendations that provide a framework for a bold and transformative Alzheimer’s disease research agenda. Developed at the recent Alzheimer’s Disease Research Summit 2015: Path to Treatment and Prevention, the recommendations provide the wider Alzheimer’s research community with a strategy for speeding the development of effective interventions for Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

Neurosurgeons at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) are using Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets used in gaming to be transported inside their patients’ brains. The UCLA Department of Neurosurgery is collaborating with Surgical Theater LLC to integrate the Oculus Rift with Surgical Theater's 3-D surgery navigation device called SNAP.

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