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?

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.

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