March 15, 2010 — An FDA-pending 3D advanced visualization software package for cardiologists includes a broad array of cardiovascular-specific image analysis applications and boasts several workflow benefits over the use of third-party systems.

March 17, 2010 - In the State of Tennessee has one of the highest incidence rates of and mortality rates for colon cancer in the United States, and during colon cancer month, a Tennessee-based company presented state legislators with a colon cancer test that could save millions of lives and cut healthcare costs.

March 17, 2010 - Researchers found a two-week break in radiation therapy for patients with stage I small cell lung cancer, who have gone through surgery, reduced patients' symptoms without adversely affecting cancer survival, reports the February issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.


March 17, 2010 – Body size, gender and the complexity of heart disease significantly influence how much cumulative radiation skin dose patients receive during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) therapy, according to a new Mayo Clinic study. The study was undertaken as a quality control initiative to reduce the potential radiation risks of cancer to patients and PCI operators.

March 17, 2010 - Clarian Health is Indiana's most comprehensive academic medical center and one of the busiest health systems in the United States. Recently it replaced its legacy PACS with a fully virtualized system and a complete disaster recovery/business continuance system serving five hospitals and nine outpatient imaging centers in the Indianapolis metropolitan area.

March 16, 2010 - As part of the second installment of funds under the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the federal government will allocate an additional $162 million to states to pay for technology to implement electronic medical records (EMR).

March 16, 2010 - As with any new capital equipment purchase, one has to consider maintenance and the overall cost of ownership. To protect your investment, many facilities place almost as much importance in the features that protect and maintain the equipment as the core equipment itself.

March 16, 2010 - The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) has re-elected American College of Radiology (ACR) officials to lead the United States in making policy on radiation protection and measurements in medicine.

March 16, 2010 - SenoRx Inc. released a statement yesterday announcing with great sadness of its chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Lloyd H. Malchow.

March 16, 2010 – Preliminary results from the single-center study suggest that compared to SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), flurpiridaz F18 PET MPI has a higher diagnostic specificity for detecting right coronary artery disease and a higher accuracy for evaluating the extent of stress-induced myocardial perfusion abnormalities with coronary angiography as the gold standard.

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