September 20, 2012 — Viztek, a digital imaging solution provider, announced the availability of a wall mounting kit for its small-footprint Opal computed radiography (CR) II X-ray system.  The wall-mounted configuration is ideal for a variety of healthcare settings.

September 20, 2012 — Hospitals, medical facilities, doctors and long-term care facilities this fall are stocking shelves and purchasing items from their wish list and budgets before a new tax on most medical products goes into effect in 2013.

The medical community buzzed a couple of weeks ago as word spread of technology guru Vinod Khosla’s prediction that the future of medical practice would be more robot than doctor.

September 19, 2012 — Aycan Medical Systems announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for Aycan mobile, an iPad app for teleradiology.

September 19, 2012 — Elekta recently announced the latest production release of its Monaco treatment planning system, Version 3.20, which offers customers improved VMAT (volumetric modulated arc therapy) planning and delivery support, in addition to support for Elekta's Agility 160-leaf multileaf collimator (MLC).

In a recent article, “The AMA Backs Bills to Stop Medicare Imaging Pay Cuts,”  the American Medical Association (AMA) once again is fighting to maintain the status quo. They’ve picked a battle that won’t help them win the war.

Wayne Webster

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 15:33

Wayne Webster is a business development healthcare consultant. You can learn more about Webster and his company, Proactics Consulting, at www.Proactics.net. You can reach Webster at [email protected].

September 19, 2012 — Heart catheter procedures guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are as safe as X-ray angiography-guided procedures and take no more time, according to a pilot study conducted at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The results of the study indicate that real-time MRI-guided catheterization could be a radiation-free alternative to certain X-ray-guided procedures.

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