September 9, 2011 — Medical image sharing website SeeMyRadiology.com has introduced a free, downloadable application for the iPhone or iPad to connect directly to the site’s cloud. Users can also make use of a full range of search and image manipulation tools.

It’s old school that bone and ultrasound don’t mix. And it makes sense. Sonography is all about echoes, and what reflects sound better than bone? But modern ultrasound has entered a gray area, where such clear-cut distinctions no longer apply.  

Nothing less than a complete revamping of the modality is needed to change the fact that ultrasound has a tough time penetrating bone. But clinicians are finding that visualizing the outer surface of bony structures and the tissue surrounding them may be enough.  

Alcyone Nuclear Cardiology Platform

September 9, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced it has received commitments from more than 100 customers globally for its Alcyone technology. The Alcyone is a nuclear cardiology platform designed to help facilitate workflow efficiency and dose management while maintaining image quality. It combines cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors, focused pinhole collimation, stationary data acquisition and 3-D reconstruction.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital and Clinics is a 471-bed facility that ranks among the finest academic medical centers in the United States. It is recognized as a national leader in several fields. To facilitate better information sharing among practitioners, the facility needed to import JPEG images from digital cameras and other video sources.

Synergy Health is one of the highest volume centers in the world, performing more than 30 venous procedures a day. It also is one of the only groups in the world to combine the Haacke protocol MRI/MRV with the treatment of CCSVI, thereby providing better care for patients. The initial cornerstone in the diagnosis and treatment of CCSVI is the pre-procedure imaging.

Dr. Lyle Harrison is no stranger to the challenges of delivering healthcare to patients in rural markets. Since 1997, he has been living and providing radiation oncology services in the MonDak region of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. One of his biggest frustrations was not being able to provide radiation services to every patient he saw because of limitations in the technology and expertise available. As a result, many of his patients were forced to travel hundreds of miles to bigger cities where they could get the treatment they needed.

Frederick Memorial Hospital (FMH) was the first healthcare provider in Frederick County, Maryland, to offer digital mammography with the addition of Hologic Selenia digital mammography. In 2010, FMH once again partnered with Hologic for breast biopsy technology at its state-of-the-art women’s center – a partnership that has led to greater patient comfort and efficiency without sacrificing diagnostic confidence.

Federal incentive programs have been underway for just over a year to encourage adoption of electronic health records (EHR), but how this relates to radiology is not much clearer now than at the programs’ start. Part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the programs offer Medicare/Medicaid incentives to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals for adopting certified EHR technology and utilizing that technology in a meaningful way.
Mammography: The Film-to-Digital Crossover

Breast imaging centers, like many other users of imaging systems, are jumping feet-first into digital technology. The conversion process from film to digital doesn’t have to be difficult, and digital systems offer many benefits to both users and patients, from improved workflow and reduced storage space requirements, to superior image quality.
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