April 9, 2008 - iMDsoft said that University Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, has selected MetaVision for operating rooms (MV-OR) as its anesthesia information management system to improve care quality and efficiency in perioperative areas.


Outpatient care facilities tend to view remarketed or secondary equipment, commonly referred to as used equipment, in one of several ways.

Either it’s a cost-effective and viable way to acquire technology to satisfy a growing patient load or offer a new patient service without the financial commitment of buying new or it’s merely a sound economic decision to avoid booking a depreciable asset that starts losing value (independent of patient revenue) once it leaves the vendor’s warehouse.

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.

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