The FDA has cleared EDDA Technology’s new IQQA-Liver, an analysis software that provides diagnostic decision support for evaluating hepatic lesions using multiphase multi-detector CT.

IQQA-Liver manages 4-D patient liver image data and supports diagnostic decision making automatically by leveraging analysis algorithms and powerful visualization tools.

Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology has announced the extension its radiology offering through a partnership with Apex Radiology, a provider of general and nighttime teleradiology services.

In the agreement, Franklin and Seidelmann will use Apex Radiology to provide general and nighttime radiology interpretations from various modalities including X-ray, ultrasound and CT, while providing subspecialty expertise for Apex Radiology clients. With the new partnership, Franklin and Seidelmann can now service imaging center, radiologist groups and hospitals.

IBM Corp. is collaborating with Bycast Inc. to establish an enterprise-wide storage system at Iowa Health System. The new system is based on IBM’s Grid Medical Archive Solution, a tool designed to allow cardiology, radiology and other digital images to be shared across multiple sites as well as provide long-term storage.

Medicsight PLC has received FDA clearance for Medicsight ColonCAR 1.2.1, an image analysis software tool designed for use with CT colonography to assist radiologists in searching for and measuring potential colorectal polyps.

Merge eMed's Fusion RIS/PACS MX is designed for increased productivity and driving new referrals for imaging businesses. This new offering features a “Radiologist Command Center,” providing access to all patient-related information and images.

ScImage Inc.’s PicomEnterprise solution is a Web-based enterprise imaging solution that captures, stores, distributes and archives radiology and cardiology image exams from reportedly any DICOM and many non-DICOM devices.

Nuclear medicine connectivity company Numa Inc. debuted new DICOM translation capabilities for a range of proprietary PET data sets as an enhancement to NumaLink, its cross-vendor data translation tool.

Sharp Electronics Corp. announced the release of its new 65-inch LCD monitor, being marketed to hospitals for image-guided surgery. The PN-655U panel provides 1920 by 1080 2-megapixel high-definition resolution, which enables display of both computer and video for medical imaging.

More than a third of doctors who sit on the review boards that oversee the integrity of clinical trials have financial ties with companies whose drugs are being tested in those trials.

That's the finding of a new study in the Nov. 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers also found that the vast majority of review board members surveyed - 85.5 percent - believed that industry ties do not affect members' decisions in any inappropriate way.

Efforts to include more private insurers in Medicare may be costing the agency more money, new research shows.

On average, private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans were paid 12.4 percent more per enrollee in 2005 than what the same enrollees would have cost the traditional U.S. Medicare fee-for-service program, says a report released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues.

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