July 14, 2008 � The MaryEllen Locher Breast Center in Chattanooga, TN, will install an Aurora 1.5 Tesla Dedicated Breast MRI System, replacing the traditional full-body MRI system.

July 14, 2008 - The American College of Radiology�s (ACR) CT colonography guidelines recommend that polyps ≤ 5mm in size not be reported on CT colonography by applying them to an endoscopic database that collected information about polyps that had been removed and processed, according to a study presented at Digestive Disease Week 2008 (DDW).

July 11, 2008 – ValuSource Software and Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) released two Web-based dashboards that enable physicians and group practices to enter a few variables about physician compensation and production and costs and compare themselves to national norms.

July 14, 2008 - Toshiba America Medical Systems won a computed tomography (CT) contract by clients of Broadlane, a supply chain services company serving healthcare providers throughout the U.S., after clients compared the vendor to other CT manufacturers.

LUMEDX Corp. offers the CardioPACS 5.0, the latest version of its cardiology PACS software.

The multi-modality, Web-enabled and vendor-neutral CardioPACS 5.0 offers new and better ways to manage images and data with a fully integrated suite of applications, modules.

July 11, 2008) The Joint Commission and the Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA) have partnered to provide quality oversight for urgent care clinics, which provide walk-in treatment for many injuries, illnesses and conditions ranging from minor sore throats to head injuries.

RT PACS Streamlines Dynamic Workflow
RT PACS Streamlines Dynamic Workflow

This year, more than 1.4 million Americans will be cancer patients, according to an American Cancer Society report. Unfortunately, with an aging U.S. population — approximately 17 percent of Americans are over the age of 60, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and millions of Baby Boomers will turn 60 over the next decade — cancer rates won’t be declining anytime soon.

The radiation oncology community is increasingly more optimistic about winning the battle against breast cancer. This hope is in part due to the many developments in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for breast cancer used for diagnosis, staging, pretreatment and preoperative planning. Simultaneously, researchers are developing new techniques in radiosurgery for treating cancerous tumors in the breast and are turning out promising results from these preliminary studies.

It is based on decades-old tomogram technology; even more surprising is the concept behind it is inspired in part by formulas conceived by a mathematician on a blackboard at the turn of the 20th century.

July 11, 2008 - A new study that found wireless systems that track hospital medical equipment can cause potentially hazardous incidents involving lifesaving devices may have caused needless alarmed, says a biomedical engineering technology professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

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