Approximately 70 percent of the recent decline in healthcare spending growth from 2009-2011 was due to the economic downturn, and not to other factors such as health sector responses to the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.

OneDX, the mobile medical imaging management solution from The New Medical Product Server, is providing patients and physicians with unfettered access to medical images, allowing images from picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and vendor neutral archive (VNA) platforms to be viewed and shared from a computer or any mobile device.

Piramal Imaging announced that WVU Healthcare in West Virginia, is the first center in the United States to perform commercial scans using Neuraceq. 


August 13, 2014 — ECRI Institute’s SELECTplus User Experience Network recently polled hundreds of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) system users on a variety of criteria, including image quality, coil selection and setup, ease of use, patient throughput and vendor support. The survey results include function, feature and service ratings for each model, grouped by vendor to show how each vendor’s product line fares in each category.

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging is partnering with SonoSim to provide an integrated ultrasound training solution for the Sonimage P3 hand-held ultrasound system. 

Scientists now have a better understanding of how short DNA strands decompose in microseconds.

Canon U.S.A. Inc. is showcasing its line of radiology offerings at the 2014 American Healthcare Radiology Administrators Exposition (AHRA) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Aug. 11-13, 2014. 

July 12, 2014 — Dilon Technologies announced it obtained CE mark approval for its Navigator gamma probe system. The CE mark allows Dilon to begin marketing the device throughout the European Union. Dilon has expanded its distribution into the majority of European countries and has already received the first orders.

August 12, 2014 — Elekta and Philips Healthcare announced The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist cancer center based in Manchester, England, will join a consortium whose mission is to develop the clinical value of an integrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided radiation therapy system. Such a system would, in principle, improve the practice of radiotherapy via real-time visualization of cancer targets.

August 12, 2014 — New technology installed at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston offers patients a nonsurgical, specialized form of treatment that can be completed in five or fewer outpatient sessions, each lasting 20 minutes or less. The first patient will be treated on Aug. 13.

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