DiA Imaging Analysis has partnered with Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. to expand analysis capabilities of Konica Minolta's Exa Cardio PACS platform (cardiovascular information system) with DiA's LVivo Toolbox for cardiac analysis.

William Pinsky, M.D., FAAP, FACC
Mandeep Mehra, M.D., MBBS, MSc

As we strive to process today’s successive news cycles involving negative reports about immigration, it is easy for many to assume that international physicians are a new phenomenon in the United States ― and a problematic one at that. Predictions of a physician shortage are now mainstream news. The immigration debate in recent years has heightened awareness of the individuals who enter our country and their reasons for coming here.

Quality care matters deeply to CarolinaEast Health System, an award-winning health system in New Bern, N.C. Yet managing the complexity and cost of care was becoming increasingly challenging given the volume of disparate data housed in many, often incompatible, systems. While securely acquiring, assessing, sharing and storing patient imaging data has always been paramount to CarolinaEast, the method for doing so was complicated and varied widely among its multiple locations.

The Ambra Health mobile app provides medical image access across Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialists’ 21 locations.
Carestream’s Vue Motion universal viewer allows image access from multiple operating systems and via a web browser with operating platforms utilizing HTML5, including PCs, Mac and validated mobile devices.

Mobile technology has become an intrinsic part of everyday life, with the vast majority of people owning smartphones, tablets or both. This has changed the way life is conducted, even the way people receive healthcare. According to healthcare data analysis firm IQVIA, there are some 318,000 mobile health (mHealth) apps available in major app stores, with another 200 being added every day.
A 3-D printed model (left) and a model constructed in augmented reality (right), both of a kidney with a tumor. In both models, the kidney is clear; the tumor is visible in purple on the AR model and in white on the 3-D printed model.
A 3-D printed model (left) and a model constructed in augmented reality (right), both of a kidney with a tumor. In both models, the kidney is clear; the tumor is visible in purple on the AR model and in white on the 3-D printed model.

Three-dimensional (3-D) printing and augmented reality (AR) are two of the more exciting technologies being explored in radiology today. In their own way, each technology gives form and depth to medical imaging data, offering a new perspective for physicians and patients. Early explorations have promised new ways to plan surgical and interventional procedures, and new methods to help patients understand what care is being delivered and how.

Bracco Imaging S.p.A. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Blue Earth Diagnostics, a molecular imaging company based in Oxford, U.K. Subject to customary closing conditions, completion of the transaction is expected in the third quarter of this calendar year.

vRad (Virtual Radiologic), a Mednax company recently made a scientific presentation, “Screening for Aortic Dissection on CT Angiography Using a Convolutional Neural Network,” at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, June 26-28 in Aurora, Colo.

“With our present technology, we often struggle with large patients,” said Richard G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D., at Southwoods Imaging. “With the new ACUSON Sequoia ultrasound system, we have the availability of the Deep Abdominal Transducer (DAX). This new technology allows us to get much deeper into the abdomen in those challenging patients. This is important because if we are looking for multiple lesions, we need to be able to scan the entire liver.” A radiologist for more than 25 years, Dr. Barr is president of Radiology Consultants, Inc.

David Anderson at SIIM
Greg Freiherr

Two simple neural networks are better than one complex one, according to a father-son team of entrepreneurs. On June 27 the two described “A Two-Stage Deep Learning Approach to Chest X-Ray Analysis” during the 2019 meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine in Denver.

 
Philips Pinnacle

Treatment planning systems (TPS) are a critical component of radiation therapy delivery, primarily to ensure that the tumor site is receiving the maximum therapeutic dose while sparing surrounding tissue and organs as much as possible. As treatment methods continue to evolve and expand, more sophisticated technology is required to ensure that modalities like proton therapy, image-guided radiation therapy and others are being employed in the most effective manner to maximize benefit to the patient.
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