February 25, 2009 – The Kaleida Health Stroke Center at Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y. has installed Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE dynamic volume CT system, making it the first U.S. stroke center to offer dynamic volume CT to dramatically reduce stroke diagnosis time.

February 25, 2009 – Nancy Soto has been named the new director of the Protocol Development and Regulatory Compliance Department of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG).


February 25, 2009 - Products or services become commoditized when there is no differentiation between how they are perceived, and price becomes the determining factor in provider selection. In radiology, the threat of commoditization has increased in part due to teleradiology, increased information exchange and the development of new technology, according to Bruce I. Reiner, M.D., and Eliot L.

February 25, 2009 - The most frequently cited subspecialty for radiology was neuroradiology at 17.1 percent and for radiation oncology, 18.9 percent of procedures involve the prostate, according to an article, Subspecialization in Radiology and Radiation Oncology, by Geoffrey G. Smith, M.D., et al, published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

February 25, 2009 - Merge Healthcare released Cedara ProPlanner 3.1, a digital solution for joint arthroscopy, trauma and deformity correction that can be integrated into existing applications such as PACS or EMRs.

February 24, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology will host a connectathon at its headquarters in Fairfax, VA., this September as part of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) initiative to promote seamless connectivity and integration of radiotherapy equipment and patient health information systems.

February 24, 2009 – The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) today introduced its HIMSS Online Buyer’s Guide, a Web-based tool with companies listing relevant information on their healthcare IT products and services.

Feb. 24, 2009 – NovaRad’s NovaRIS receives the highest overall performance score in the RIS community hospital market segment of the 2009 KLAS “The Revival of RIS” report.

ScImage will demonstrate the newly added cardiology imaging capabilities for its cardiology PACS, including; structured reporting for echocardiography and vascular procedures, a clinical information database, voice recognition enhanced reporting, DICOM Modality Worklist Driven ECG Management and automatic pre-fetch of cardiac CT and thoracic CR/DR exams stored on its multi-departmental PACS.

Digirad's Cardius X-ACT, a dedicated cardiac SPECT system, offers the potential to set new clinical standards with X-ACT attenuation correction. The X-ACT system is based on the high-efficiency Cardius-3 XPO triple-head upright dedicated nuclear cardiac SPECT imaging system.

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