August 7, 2020 — Rapid first aid during cardiac arrest makes the difference between life and death. But what happens to the heart and the internal organs when people come running and begin to give well-meaning but heavy-handed heart massage as they attempt to keep the person who has suffered a cardiac arrest alive?

August 6, 2020 — Carestream Health has launched its DRX-Compass X-ray System for mid-tier hospitals and medical imaging centers worldwide. The system offers a flexible and scalable approach to digital imaging with an eye to the future, while increasing workflow efficiency and reducing costs.

August 6, 2020 — RadNet, Inc., a national leader in providing high-quality, cost-effective, fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services, and Hologic, Inc., an innovative medical technology company primarily focused on improving women’s health, have entered into a definitive collaboration to advance the use of artificial intellige

August 6, 2020 — Researchers have demonstrated a new high-resolution X-ray imaging technique that can capture the motion of rapidly moving objects and quickly changing dynamics. The new method could be used for non-destructive imaging of moving mechanical components and to capture biological processes not previously available with medical X-ray imaging.

August 5, 2020 — The nation’s largest medical imaging associations are working together to develop the new Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), an open-source database with medical images from tens of thousands of coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. The MIDRC will help doctors better understand, diagnose, monitor and treat COVID-19.

August 5, 2020 — Intelerad Medical Systems, a leader in enterprise workflow solutions, announced the acquisition of Radius, a private cloud platform provider based in the Nashville, Tenn., metropolitan area. This acquisition is a significant milestone, advancing Intelerad’s strategy of becoming the imaging cloud platform of choice. It provides a flexible approach to managed services with the ability to offer hybrid cloud solutions to healthcare providers.

August 5, 2020 — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Somatom On.site, a mobile head computed tomography (CT) scanner from Siemens Healthineers that enables a critically ill patient to receive CT head imaging in the intensive care unit (ICU) while remaining in bed.

August 4, 2020 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) will serve as the imaging coordination center for the multicenter COVID-19 Observational Study (CORAL) led by Catherine "Terri" L. Hough, M.D., of the Oregon Health & Science University.

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