Tethered to a hospital or healthcare system, one facility in a larger chain or just an independent medical provider in the middle of nowhere, ambulatory surgery centers contribute a great deal to the healthcare industry collectively and to patients individually. To some forward-thinking futurists, ASCs represent the lifeblood and eventual gateway to post-modern medicine.

In the worlds of business, entertainment and politics (including, branding, marketing, newsworthiness and public relations) image is everything.

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.

When a Nevada clinic made headlines recently about sloppy infection control and ineffectual sterilization practices, admitting that it had reused syringes on patients and forcing thousands of patients to undergo disease testing, the ambulatory surgery center community had to wince and shudder.

St. Louis, MO – CMS, the worldwide market leader in radiation treatment planning and workflow management solutions, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for Monaco, its next-generation IMRT planning platform. This clearance allows CMS to begin distributing Monaco for clinical use in the U.S. CMS previously announced the release of Monaco 1.0 in July and the first clinical implementations have already been completed in Europe and Australia.


Medrad hopes to thrust new life into molecular imaging with its 510(k) pending FDG-PET power injector system called Intego, designed to promote greater accuracy in dose injection and which reportedly reduces radiation exposure related to FDG-handling by 40 percent.

PARCA candidates often wonder how their peers in this industry have fared and what some of the typical career tracks are. Ultimately, they want to know what the opportunities are and how to map out a strategy for attaining those goals. As a follow-up from our past article, “What is the PACS Career Track?”, we put theses questions to several healthcare imaging and IT professionals, who offered some enlightening responses.

Not so long ago, 64-slice computed tomography (CT) systems with their breakthrough technology were newly released for clinical use. Just a few years later, clinicians are looking beyond 64-slice systems to see what they can do with 128-, 256- and 320-slice CT scanners, if they can get their hands on one.


Heart disease is the leading cause of death of Americans, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives yearly. The ability to diagnose and treat patients sooner and with more accuracy is key to winning the war against heart disease. Advancements in ultrasound — one of imaging technology’s most affordable and available modalities — are leading the charge by bringing enhanced diagnostic and treatment accuracy to more patients.

CAD Takes On Breast MR, Reduces Biopsy Rates

Much controversy has surrounded the best methods of screening and detecting breast cancer as it pertains to the use of computer-aided detection (CAD).
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