January 18, 2010 - The Southeast Asian PACS market is a growing market, showing strong demand for PACS installations across the healthcare system.

Applications for single-database RIS/PACS, cardiology PACS, digital mammography PACS, and clinical specialties such as cardiac, lung, colon and dental are in high demand.

January 18, 2010 - Imaging technology has long been essential in determining the nature of a professional football player’s injury, but with the increasing prevalence of digital x-ray technology, it’s now used just as much to discern whether an athlete is able to safely remain in the game.

January 14, 2010 - The leading Women's diagnostic centers today provide mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound, ultrasound and MRI, and guided breast biopsy, and these were the requirements for being distiguished a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR).

January 14, 2009 – Implementing a cardiac imaging benefit management program like those used in the private sector could help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) avoid reimbursement cuts that may drive cardiologists and other specialty physicians out of business.

January 13, 2010 - Pressure from women's groups, doctors and imaging-equipment manufacturers may have influenced lawmakers to provide more coverage for mammograms in the final healthcare bill than recommended in the guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

January 13, 2010 - Changes in staffing in the emergency department impact the availability of diagnostic modalities or treatmentment options for care.

January 13, 2010 – Research validates the efficacy of the recent reclassification of the T category in the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer’s (IASLC) "Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology" released in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

January 13, 2010 - Compared to computed tomography (CT), mammography and other commonly used tests, positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) scans of the whole body may more accurately detect cancer in individuals with related neurologic disorders, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the March print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives

January 13, 2010 – There is growing awareness about the advantages of proton therapy compared to conventional photon radiation therapy, especially when treating pediatric patients. Protons release most of their energy when they hit the tumor and deliver no exit dose beyond the tumor boundary, unlike photons.

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