Fifteen years ago, I was ready to bet the farm that X-ray, with its hundreds of thousands of systems installed worldwide, was ready to embrace the digital revolution. Every other modality had done so. PACS gurus lamented that X-ray’s intransigence was the main – if not the only – reason that PACS was not catching on. And their argument made sense. Radiographs alone accounted for about 70% of all radiologic images. Major suppliers, including Thales in Europe and Varian on this side of the Atlantic, had announced fabrication facilities capable of stoking the digital fire.

January 19, 2012 – With the need to reduce radiation exposure and healthcare costs, it is imperative to order the most appropriate test the first time. By ordering the correct exam, providers will ensure the quickest, most accurate diagnosis for patients, faster healing times and fewer repeated exams.

January 19, 2011 — Clalit Health Services’ implementation of a Carestream Vue picture archive and communications system (PACS) was rated as one of the best IT projects by People and Computers Group, Israel's largest print and online magazine dedicated to IT.

 

January 17, 2012 – Accuray announced today that CHRISTUS MUGUERZA Hospital Alta Especialidad in Monterrey, Mexico, has starting treating patients with the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System. CHRISTUS MUGUERZA is the first center in Mexico now offering patients the benefits of the CyberKnife System to treat tumors anywhere in the body.

January 17, 2012 – Data presented at the 6th Annual Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting in Miami suggest that the investigational 18F imaging agent Flutemetamol could add value to current diagnostic tools used by physicians to evaluate neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Flutemetamol is a GE Healthcare positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer in phase III development for the detection of beta amyloid plaques.

January 17, 2012 — Killing tumors by freezing them can add precious time to the lives of women with ovarian cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Minimally invasive cryoablation extends lives and is cost-effective, according to a study being presented at the 4th annual Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO), in collaboration with the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET).

January 17, 2012 — Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) Systems, a healthcare IT company and teleradiology interoperability expert, announced their selection as the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) vendor of choice by Onrad Inc. a California-based teleradiology group.

January 13, 2012 — Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Xpress CR Digital Mammography upgrade for sale.

January 13, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating healthcare professionals and the public about preliminary findings from ongoing investigations following the voluntary recall of CardioGen-82 last July by the manufacturer, Bracco Diagnostics. CardioGen-82 consists of a generator that is used at clinical sites to produce rubidium (Rb)-82 chloride injection. A CardioGen-82 positron emission tomography (PET) scan is one of a variety of nuclear medicine scans that use radioactive drugs to evaluate myocardial perfusion.

 
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