June 20, 2008 – Earlier this week, the American College of Radiology (ACR) in conjunction with the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists (SGR) and the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT-MR) informed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that there is sufficient data and clinical evidence to support national coverage for CT colonography (CTC) as a screening tool for colorectal cancer and urged CMS to reimburse providers for this exam.

June 20, 2008 — iCAD Inc. said it has initiated a clinical study for Colon CAD, its virtual colonoscopy CAD product, in partnership with ACR Image Metrix, a subsidiary of the American College of Radiology (ACR).

June 19, 2008 - The second annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Process Improvement and Business Excellence in Healthcare is taking place July 30-Aug. 1, 2008 in Chicago.

This is the only event that brings together executives from the healthcare, hospitality, automotive and manufacturing industries to discuss solutions to streamline business process management.

June 19, 2008 - The Medipattern Corp. recently announced the addition of two leading industry professionals, Cindy Rapp and Bob Dockendorff to Medipattern�s management team.

June 19, 2008 - More than 170 leaders from state nursing workforce centers throughout the nation attended a conference June 11-12 in Denver to discuss nursing workforce retention issues and the potential critical shortage of a skilled nursing workforce by the year 2010.

In a keynote address to attendees, Benjamin Isgur, assistant director of PricewaterhouseCooper’s Health and Research Institute, shared data that underscored the importance of focusing on nursing retention issues over the next several years. His findings indicated that:


Human error is one of patient safety’s biggest enemies and while clinicians try not to make mistakes, they frequently have their attention pulled in several directions at once. Computers on the other hand can be programmed to look for mistakes to help avert problems, which is the main reason advocates say electronic health records (EHRs) are needed to make vast improvements in patient safety.

June 19, 2008 – Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. today introduced the Breast Imaging Diagnostic Workstation (BIDW), which is available for any U.S. facility that has implemented Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM).

June 19, 2008 - One of the two images selected as the 2008 SNM Image of the Year at SNM 2008 reveals a relapse of neuroendocrine cancer—a malignancy of the interface between the hormonal and nervous systems—including a nodal involvement.

Stefano Fanti, M.D., professor of nuclear medicine at the Policlinico S. Orsola–Università di Bologna in Italy presented the image from a case of a neuroendocrine tumor located in the left middle ear that was referred for restaging.

June 19, 2008 – At the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s 55th Annual Meeting held in New Orleans, French researchers presented a handheld perioperative compact imager (POCI), a gamma camera used to perform lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel lymph node (SLN) localization in breast cancer.

June 19, 2008 - IMIX Americas Inc. said today it has expanded its product line with the addition of a 17-inch-by-17-inch field of view detector, which is available immediately.

Reportedly providing greater flexibility for clinicians and technologists, the detector accommodates most patient sizes and is ideal for imaging applications requiring full anatomical coverage. The enhanced detector features the same high image quality and reliability as the 16-inch model, said the company.

For more information: www.imixadr.com

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