June 23, 2009 - A recent survey on imaging equipment usage showed that in rural areas of the U.S. 261 imaging systems in 46 centers (using current Medicare assumptions) operate only 48 percent of the time, compared to equipment in non-rural areas operates 56 percent of the time a center is open for business.

June 23, 2009 - On June 11, 2009 57 members of Congress sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him “to reject arbitrary cuts to imaging services or changes to the utilization rate assumption.”

June 23, 2009 - On June 20, 2009, the American College of Radiology Education Center, “radiology’s classroom of the future,” reported that more than 800 physicians attended to experience hands-on training, with individual workstations, using the imaging software of their choice during the first 12 months.

June 23, 2009 - On June 12, 2009, FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc., announced that Amerinet, one of the leading healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the United States, added Synapse cardiovascular and Synapse RIS to its existing Fujifilm contracts.

June 23, 2009 - The positron emission tomography (PET) core laboratory of the American College of Radiology Clinical Research Center serves a critical role ensuring images and image data from PET scanners used in multicenter clinical trial research meet acceptable standards according to a paper published online June 12 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

June 22, 2009 - U-Systems, a dedicated breast ultrasound systems manufacturer, together with Medical Director Jessica A. Guingrich, M.D., of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Susan G.

June 22, 2009 - CIVCO Medical Solutions is now offering the L25 Series Needle Guide, transverse needle guides are designed for use with SonoSite’s L25 transducer series for MicroMaxx, S Series and M-Turbo systems.

June 22, 2009 - GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with the Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network (SWODIN) to expand its existing Diagnostic Imaging Repository (DI-r), anchored by Centricity Enterprise Archive, to the participating hospitals in Waterloo-Wellington and Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant Local Health Integrated Networks (LHIN).

June 22, 2009 - Diagnostic radiology specialty networks are responsible for directing 44 percent of workers’ compensation patients seen by the imaging centers, and for 18 percent of patients with health insurance, according to a survey of 140 independent U.S.-based imaging centers conducted by Lead Generation Solutions and commissioned by One Call Medical.

June 19, 2009 - Increased utilization of advanced medical imaging, such as CT and MRI, between 1991 and 2004 improved life expectancy rates by a significant factor, actually greater than the increases in mortality caused by obesity over the same timeframe, according to a recent study conducted by Columbia University professor Frank Lichtenberg, Ph.D.

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