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?

Frequently, the difference between a patient’s health and safety and the harm and pain he or she may experience resides in a technology-packed box at the patient’s bedside or next to the surgical table in the operating room that effectively monitors physiological vital signs.

InnerWireless, Inc. announced today that it has deployed its Medical-grade Wireless Utility, a broadband antenna system, throughout The Heart Center of Indiana (THCI), to provide the facility with enterprise-wide network access.
With the Medical-grade Wireless Utility, patient information can be assessed from anywhere throughout the hospital via wireless devices. It will also support Siemens’ Soarian software, a health information system currently being considered for implementation at THCI.

VirtualScopics Inc., a developer of image-based biomarker solutions, announced today the signing of two, 24-month contracts totaling $1,400,000 for two Phase II/III cancer studies of the vascular disruptive agent MN-029 with MediciNova; a pharmaceutical company. In the agreement, VirtualScopics will perform site qualification and training for more than 110 global imaging sites, image data analysis and final reporting.

Valley Baptist Health System, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in south Texas, will upgrade its existing IDX “LastWord” system to the Centricity Enterprise (formerly IDX Carecast) solution from GE Healthcare. With the implementation, caregivers will be able to view a patient’s entire medical history electronically.

Intelerad has been named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50, the annual program which recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in Canada. Rankings are based on percentage growth in fiscal year revenues over five years, from 2001 to 2005.

A new study on electron spin resonance imaging at the University of Bath in the U.K. may lead to a new imaging technique for detecting serious disorders such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and septic shock.

Siemens Medical Solutions announced today that it has made an alliance with Access e-forms to upgrade Siemens' Soarian HIM and Enterprise Document Management (EDM) solutions with new automated forms management capabilities to assist healthcare in achieving a fully paperless, electronic medical record environment.

The Innova IVUS — an integration of Volcano Corp.’s intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) capabilities and GE Healthcare’s Innova all-digital X-ray cath lab imaging system — is designed to give a clearer view of coronary and peripheral vessel morphology in an accessible manner.
The product is made possible, in part, due to Volcano’s latest PC-based IVUS platform that reduces the size, weight and noise of the IVUS console, allowing the unit to be
located in the control room or in other areas outside of the daily traffic pattern of the cath lab.

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