Siemens Announces FDA Clearance of Artis one Angiography System

May 6, 2014 — Siemens Healthcare announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Artis one angiography system, optimized for broad clinical utilization. The Artis one is designed for routine interventions, including revascularizations of peripheral vessel occlusions, functional tests of dialysis shunts in patients with kidney failure, diagnostic or minimally invasive angiographic treatment of narrowed coronary arteries, and pacemaker implantations.

As an editor attending clinical symposiums and always on the lookout for new trends in technology, I sometimes find myself wondering if what I see is actually the reality on the ground for most clinicians. A recent example of this has been the implementation and use of clinical decision support (CDS) software to ensure physicians are following appropriate use criteria (AUC).

Devicor Medical Products Inc. acquired  HydroMARK breast biopsy marker portfolio and related assets from Biopsy Sciences LLC.

ASTRO Medicare Low-Dose CT Screening Adults Lung Cancer CT Systems

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is concerned by the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee’s (MEDCAC) April 30, 2014 recommendation to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that adults at high risk for lung cancer should not receive Medicare coverage of annual, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening. 

GE and the PGA Tour have announced the addition of a new portable ultrasound system to the Visionworks Mobile Health & Fitness Trailers on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. 

The first clinical mARC treatment, planned with RaySearch’s treatment planning system RayStation, has been delivered at Europe Hospitals in Brussels, Belgium.

Kubtec, a leader in innovation for digital specimen radiography, announced  its development of TomoView, a groundbreaking tomosynthesis technology for digital specimen radiography of excised breast tissue. The company’s patent-pending technology allows for multi-planar x-ray imaging for thorough margin analysis of excised breast tissue and is the core foundation on which Kubtec’s upcoming system release, MOZART, is based.

SIIM 2014: The 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will take place May 15-17, 2014, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. The meeting promises to deliver leading-edge content and practical solutions for the imaging informatics challenges the industry is currently facing. Meeting highlights will include cutting-edge healthcare IT, IIP career development, peer-to-peer learning, interactive sessions, daily virtual sessions, industry highlights and more.

Analogic Corp. has entered into a distribution agreement with D&K Technologies, developer of the BioJet Solution, a revolutionary 3-D magnetic resonance imagining (MRI) transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) fusion technology.

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