Imaging forecast: Clouds ahead, followed by sunny skies for technology savvy pioneers.
Using cloud computing platforms for exchanging and storing medical images and data is the latest trend healthcare IT.

May 11, 2010 - Stereotactic radiosurgery using gamma knife is a safe and effective option for selected children with arteriovenous malformations, according to a recent study presented at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting in Philadelphia last week.

May 11, 2010 - An aggressive weekly preoperative regimen of positron emission tomography (PET) significantly improved distant metastasis-free and overall survival in patients with highly aggressive breast tumors.

May 12, 2010 - Increased detection and treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) will drive the U.S. peripheral vascular device market to over $5.3 billion by 2016, according to a new report by iData Research.

PACSman: I love how I’m given a list of the "Top 10 PACS Issues" to comment on, and it’s 19 items long. Mars and Venus says it all, if it wasn’t a list drawn up by a guy. Although, maybe Ms. PACS translated it into 19, adding her own stuff that isn’t in bold, which makes more sense. Who knows.

May 11, 2010 - Hybrid scanning systems are increasingly being used to improve tumor identification, treatment delivery and monitor treatment effectiveness.

May 11, 2010 - “Echocardiographic quantification is crucial in the diagnosis and management of patients with acquired and congenital heart disease,” said Leo Lopez, M.D., FASE, of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, N.Y., in a report published in the May issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE).

May 10, 2010 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just released a technical correction to the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which results in payment increases for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), cardiac computed tomography (CT), and cardiac catheterization codes.


Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) offers a clearer view of transcatheter devices and electrophysiology (EP) procedures from inside the heart.

May 6, 2010 - The most demanding clinical environments require the highest performing, fastest and most reliable imaging equipment.

To meet this tough standard, Konica Minolta Medical Imaging recently released the Xpress DR (digital radiography) system, a total room digital radiography solution suited for high-volume radiography environments.

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