August 20., 2009 - National Diagnostic Imaging (NDI) is providing a teleradiology Locums solution for those entities whose needs can be met without onsite support.
August 20, 2009 - "When I began to have access to patients’ electronic medical records. It made me a much better doctor," wrote David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, in a publicly distributed message.
August 19, 2009 - Sentinelle Medical will focus on the Aegis with Bright 2.0 Imaging Analysis Software in booth 16 at the Breast Imaging Conference, held in Glendale, Ariz., August 15-17, 2009.
In the pre-clinicial trial Expanding the Versatility of Cardiac PET/CT: Feasibility of Delayed Contrast Enhancement CT for Infarct Detection in a Porcine Model (Holz1, A., et al)*, researchers found that infarct size can be measured accurately and reproducibly using cardiac PET/CT with delayed CT-enhancement.
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August 19, 2009 - Actual utilization rates for radiation therapy equipment used in freestanding cancer treatment centers are closer to the current assumed rate of 50 percent, not 90 percent as proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for 2010.
August 19, 2009 - Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors, is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for women in a Clinical Therapeutics article in the Aug. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
August 18, 2009 – Medical conferencing solutions provider MultiSense Communications and medical imaging specialist Barco recently demonstrated the clinical benefits of today's telemedicine systems during a live open-heart surgery operation at the Imperial College Hospital in Hammersmith, U.K.
August 18, 2009 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a proposed decision to cover FDG-PET for initial staging of cervical cancer, but to exclude coverage for diagnosis of the disease.
August 18, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare’s SOMATOM Emotion CT scanner was ranked highest among 16-slice CT systems, according to a recent report from market research firm KLAS.*
