October 28, 2010 – An initial feasibility study has demonstrated the ability to use cesium-131 (Cs-131) brachytherapy seeds in accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) for breast cancer treatment. The study looked at IsoRay’s patented therapy for treating early stage, localized breast cancer.

October 28, 2010 – A new report from research firm KLAS has found that hospitals and clinics now hold close to 40 percent of teleradiology contracts. This represents a dramatic shift, since local radiology groups have traditionally held those contracts.

October 28, 2010 – A new type pf computer aided detection (CAD) software has received the CE Mark in Europe. Parascript, obtained CE Mark for its AccuDetect CAD software after recently receiving it for the AccuDetect Galileo CAD software.

October 22, 2010 – To help clinicians better understand meaningful use in imaging, TeraMedica has created the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) University online educational program.

P3T PA (pulmonary angiography), from Medrad, is a personalized contrast-dosing software that increases the percentage of diagnostic-quality CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) studies to rule out pulmonary embolism (PE).

A private cloud strategy, by EMC, lets healthcare providers simply and efficiently utilize information to make more informed clinical, operational and financial decisions. The company offers ways for healthcare providers to optimize care, reduce cost, and increase productivity through the accelerated adoption of electronic health record (EHR). For example, its Document Imaging for Medical Records converts medical records to indexed electronic data records and delivers them directly to the health information management (HIM) or EHR system. This eliminates the need for manual data entry.

Carestream’s Mammography Workstation is a vendor-neutral, multi-modality breast imaging workstation and flexible digital capture and output system. It enables diagnostic review of all breast imaging exams (FFDM, ultrasound, MR, CR and others) as well as all general radiology exams. This eliminates the need for radiologists to read FFDM exams on each vendor’s proprietary workstation and then switch to additional workstations to review other types of exams.

The eHealth Portal service, by Carestream Health, equips healthcare providers that use the company’s remotely hosted archiving service to allow access by any authorized user with a simple Internet connection. As a result, this new service enables cost-effective data sharing and collaboration among healthcare providers, imaging centers, radiologists, referring physicians, and other clinicians or staff.

Bracco offers contrast imaging agents for computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), angiography and radiotracers for nuclear imaging.

For MRI, it makes contrast agents with high relaxivity, high stability and established safety profiles. In addition, the company offers imaging protocols and best practice tools to help achieve the highest quality imaging.

MediCal QAWeb, by Barco, is the first online service for high-grade quality assurance (QA). The all-inclusive secured system guarantees consistent image quality and uptime of all PACS display systems throughout the facility. The system is compatible with Barco and non-Barco diagnostic and clinical displays.

It provides remote, secured and HIPAA-compliant QA management. The service also permanently monitors your display systems to ensure continuous compliance with DIN 6868-57, AAPM TG18, JESRA, MQSA, IEC 62563-1 and other regional QA guidelines.

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