October 9, 2009 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) will open new studies regarding Medicare Part B imaging payments and appropriateness of many emergency department scans according to the recently released OIG Fiscal Year 2010 Work Plan, reported the American College of Radiology.

October 9, 2009, 2009 — The University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service has adopted 7 Medical System’s on-demand PACS service, cutting costs by 30 percent and automating workflows to improve quality of care to its undergraduate and graduate population of more than 65,000 students.

October 8, 2009 — Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI), a molecular breast imaging technique with comparable sensitivity to breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting breast carcinoma when used in pre-surgical planning for patients with known cancer diagnoses and is substantially less expensive than MRI, according to findings presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncolog

Co-operation across hospital and regional boundaries results in great efficiency gains. Sectra RIS/PACS is a performance solution for wide area radiology – enabling efficient workload sharing across multiple sites, even for very large image stacks over strained networks.

At RSNA 2009, Sectra will showcase its digital mammography solution, Sectra MicroDose Mammography[1], featuring further enhanced performance for high-volume screening. Sectra customers perform as many as 15 four-image examinations per hour. With a fast detector, the system allows for an even higher productivity if needed.

October 8, 2009 - Radiologist Loren H. Ketai, M.D., from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, will bring her medical expertise to Estonia as part of the International Visiting Professor Program offered by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

October 8, 2009 - Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the American College of Radiology (ACR) CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and PET Accreditation Program requirements for medical physicists and MR will change.

October 8, 2009 - October 8th, 2009 - Bionix Radiation Therapy offers three new positioning products, including a full body positioning device for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).

October 8, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare at RSNA 2009 will demonstrate how its DR portfolio with the introduction of the DX-D 500n* and DX-D 300 DR* systems in North America.

October 8, 2009 - Royal Philips Electronics said it has developed a digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon (the basic quantum unit of light) counting in a wide range of applications where ultra-low light levels need to be measured.

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