CAD Gives a Boost to Breast Imaging
CAD Gives a Boost to Breast Imaging

Mammography and breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are tried-and-true methods for spotting and preventing the spread of breast cancer and other abnormalities. Mammography alone detects up to 90 percent of breast cancers in women over 50, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Information-based decision-making is critical to physicians in delivering quality care and ensuring efficiency in today’s health care systems. Patient data must be available and used for effective decision-making. Yet, because it exists in various systems across numerous healthcare providers, this information is not always readily available to clinicians.

As managed care penetrated more fully into the radiology sector in the 1990s, the industry experienced a time in which demand for diagnostic radiology exceeded the supply of radiologists. Studies published in the early part of this decade highlighted a severe radiologist shortage.
Change in Demand

August 25, 2010 - Polymer bottle packaging for contrast media is now included in the GE Healthcare ecomagination campaign. The +Pluspak, a packaging container for contrast media, offers advantages over traditional glass packaging that includes reduced storage, improved workplace safety for healthcare workers who administer contrast media to patients, and decreased cost of waste disposal.

Polymer Bottle Packaging Receives GE's Ecomaginationsm Approval

August 25, 2010 - GE Healthcare announced that polymer bottle packaging is now included in the company’s ecomagination campaign. +PLUSPAK, a packaging container for contrast media, offers advantages over traditional glass packaging that includes reduced storage, improved workplace safety for healthcare workers who administer contrast media to patients, and decreased cost of waste disposal.

August 25, 2010 - A privately held medical device company has secured $20 million in Series C financing led by new investor Siemens Venture Capital (SVC) GmbH and joined by existing investors Aisling Capital, Fidelity Biosciences, Kearny Venture Partners and OrbiMed Advisors.

August 26, 2010 – Analysis and quantification tools for 2-D, 3-D and 4-D data from a wide range of echocardiography systems will be added to Agfa's Impax Cardiovascular Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).

August 25, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working with the American College of Radiology as they initiate a review of a sample of mammograms performed by a Florida clinic suspected of inaccurate radiological reviews.

August 25, 2010 - A new technique that combines advanced radiologic imaging with precise tumor localization to remove a cancer in its entirety and with minimal disturbance to surrounding organs is available.

August 25, 2010 - A new portable digital radiography system was recently launched.

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