Baxter Regional Medical Center is going the extra mile to make sure women in the rural communities of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri have access to state-of-the-art screening mammograms. The nonprofit community hospital is the first in the country to offer 3D mammography in its mobile breast cancer screening program. 

 

Las Vegas-based Desert Radiologists is a high-efficiency practice performing 1.25 million exams per year

 

 

As digital radiography (DR) technology matures and the cost of implementing direct digital flat panels decreases, hospitals are considering replacing older computed radiography (CR) units with DR. Another technology innovation – the emergence of wireless DR systems – is further lowering the cost of a flat panel DR solution.

 

October 25, 2012 — Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. announced it has extended its contract with Nordion to supply molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) for use in its TechneLite (Technetium Tc-99m) generators.

October 25, 2012 — InterSystems Corp., a provider of software for healthcare interoperability, and eHealth Technologies, a provider of imaging solutions for electronic health records (EHR) and health information exchange (HIE) solutions, entered a partnership to provide single-click access to diagnostic-quality images via the InterSystems HealthShare strategic informatics platform.

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Molecular breast imaging (MBI)
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Over the last few years, new legislation mandating the inclusion of breast density findings in results letters sent to women after their mammography exams has begun appearing in a growing number of states. With three states having already enacted such laws, 17 states working on similar legislation and a federal bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, Frost & Sullivan expects widespread breast density reporting laws to have a significant impact on the demand for and utilization of various breast screening technologies. 

Lately, it seems that breast imagers cannot go a week without reading about new breast imaging research or seeing an article on breast density, the associated risk of breast cancer and the limitations of mammography. In this article, I will summarize today’s current understanding and also provide a look into what I believe the future holds for breast screening.
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