Swissray will be showcasing a number of products, including the Automated Positioning System (APS), ALLinONE stand and the AutoStitching function.
APS automates all positioning and image acquisition requirements. Patient data can be transferred directly from the RIS/HIS via DICOM worklist. With its remote control and memory function, the system can be moved quickly and precisely into the desired application. Seconds after exposure, a fully diagnostic image appears on Swissray’s SwissVision workstation for review, storage and follow-up examinations.

Rendoscopy, Inc., a developer of advanced 3-D visualization software, announced that the FDA has given 510(k) market clearance to its Gentle Colon virtual colonoscopy application, designed to offer a speedy solution to the market.
Gentle Colon can reportedly achieve faster rendering speeds than other virtual colonscopy solutions via its virtual fly-through mode. The software provides the flattened view and the split-colon view and generates 2-D and 3-D views on a single user interface.

RadWhere Suite, from Commissure Inc., now has a new component. RadWhere Workflow Orchestrator enables radiology departments to connect together multiple PACS, RIS, 3D advanced visualization and teleradiology information into a central worklist.

If the half dozen or so manufacturers of mobile C-arms could push the technological development envelope forward they undoubtedly would venture to equip them as close to fixed C-arms as possible.
Right now, however, such a strategy is a bit too cost-prohibitive – for both suppliers and customers – and those additional bells and whistles largely may not be needed in the outpatient market segment. Yet.

Simmering just below the surface of the radiology profession is an infectious debate about what the future looks like for radiologists.
The growing anxiety-ridden undercurrent centers on the fact that other clinical specialties within healthcare facilities seem to be scaling the walls that historically have protected radiology’s turf from invasion.

Radiation oncologists would be powerless without a reliable means of knowing they’re hitting their targets with the most powerful, accurate and appropriate amount of nuclear energy.
Dosimetry, the science and technology of radiation dose measurement, is the last line of defense for patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic treatments, and can mean the difference between success and disaster in the more than 300 million medical imaging procedures administered annually in the U.S.

For many rural hospitals, cost-justifying PACS is not just an important consideration – it is a necessity. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 created the Medical Rural Hospital Flexibility Program in response to a disturbing trend of rural hospital closures. From this Act the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) was created to improve the financial performance of these hospitals. Today, 1,279 certified CAHs are located throughout the U.S.

When Raleigh Radiology Associates of Raleigh, NC moved to a new office location, they decided the time was right to change the way they performed mammography and go digital. With a team of 19 board-certified radiologists and four sites in the greater Raleigh area, Raleigh Radiology serves a high volume of patients, screening at least 200 patients each day.

In today’s increasingly competitive imaging arena, centers are constantly vying for leadership positions in the markets they serve.
Reimbursement has been top-of-mind for many operators. But there are other concerns operators continually face, including, among others, the number of modalities offered; containing labor costs; controlling information technology expenses; self-referrals and keeping up with technology.
How does an operator meet these challenges? Here is a look at the top five challenges encountered by today’s outpatient’s centers.

Some contend that CR merely is an intermediate step to DR from traditional X-ray film. Why are they right or wrong?
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