October 12, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) announced four new Category 1 CPT codes for cardiac computed tomography will become effective Jan. 1, 2010.

October 11, 2009 – GE Healthcare announced the European launch of Discovery NM/CT 670, a hybrid imaging platform designed to improve workflow, dose management, and overall image quality, during the EANM'09 Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, held Oct. 10-14 in Barcelona, Spain.

October 12, 2009 - The FDA notified healthcare professionals that it has become aware of radiation overexposures during perfusion CT imaging performed to aid in the diagnosis of stroke at a particular facility, the patients receiving radiation doses that were approximately eight times the expected level.

October 12, 20009 - Joanna Fowler, Ph.D., a major contributor to brain research and a pioneer in molecular imaging, is being recognized by the White House with the National Medal of Science—the highest award for lifetime achievement in science. Eight other researchers will join Fowler to receive the award at a White House ceremony on October 7.

October 12, 2009 - Dilon Diagnostics, a molecular breast imaging (MBI), also known as breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI), device manufacturer, and Philips Healthcare have entered into a distribution agreement, in which Philips will sell and support the Dilon 6800 gamma camera in key European and Middle Eastern markets.

October 12, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare has integrated Nuance’s Critical Test Result Management (CTRM) solution, Veriphy, into IMPAX for the Canadian market.

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.

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