October 3, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) awarded $275,000 in research awards to four early-career scientists as part of the Society’s efforts to retain and foster the intellectual research talent currently entering the field of radiation oncology. For 2017, the Research Grants committee selected one Junior Faculty Award and three Resident Seed Grant recipients. All winners were recognized at ASTRO’s 59th Annual Meeting, taking place Sept. 24-27 in San Diego.

Hologic’s new Brevera breast biopsy system allows real-time tissue sample collection and verification on one system

When it comes to breast imaging, mammography has long been the gold standard among breast cancer detection technologies. But as the cancer-masking effects and increased risks of dense fibroglandular breast tissue become better understood by both healthcare professionals and patients, mammography is no longer feasible as a one-size-fits-all approach to breast cancer screening. Radiologists of all subspecialties are also having to become more efficient as workloads continue to increase

October 3, 2017 — The latest release of RamSoft PowerServer, version 6.0, offers improvements to the Peer Review feature that simplifies the review process by integrating with ACR’s RADPEER program. Starting with RamSoft PowerServer 6.0, users can now peer review any signed radiology report.

October 3, 2017 – Medical Metrics, an experienced core laboratory for multi-center clinical trials, has implemented the Digisonics Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS) for cardiology research. Digisonics provides cardiologists with remote functionality via Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Digisonics’ latest platform validated for secured access to cardiology images.

Agfa Healthcare enterprise imaging to aid radiology workflow.

A battle is raging in imaging IT today. Once a profitable hunting ground for traditional picture archiving and communication system (PACS) firms, new market entrants from the content management, archiving and informatics market are looking to disrupt the status quo. Pushing “deconstruction,” “reconstruction” and “distributed” multi-vendor imaging IT models, they have grabbed the attention of healthcare providers.
In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Magnetom Vida 3.0T MRI scanner from Siemens Healthineers

Wide bore magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems have allowed radiologists to offer patients the optimized comfort of conventional open bore systems, as well as the high-quality imaging of conventional closed bore systems. Because wide bore MRIs have broadened the demographic of patients who can be tested, the systems have gained widespread adoption, with many practices opting to equip their offices solely with wide bore systems.

With healthcare costs constantly on the rise, technology constantly progressing and new legislative and competitive threats always on the horizon, many facilities have had to place increased emphasis on operational efficiencies. For the staff at Makati Medical Center, a large hospital in the Manila metro area of the Philippines, a multitude of costly inefficient practices — including material waste and improper vetting of products —prompted the decision to seek out a better solution.

It is once again October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that about 252,710 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 63,410 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed in 2017. About 40,610 women will die from breast cancer this year.

Thirty radiologists from seven of Strategic Radiology’s 26 member practices will contribute to work undertaken by the Watson Health Medical Imaging Collaborative to advance natural language processing capabilities used in future cognitive medical imaging solutions. The radiologists will provide expert annotation of de-identified medical images that will be used by IBM to train Watson to recognize various medical imaging terms that would be found in a patient’s electronic medical record (EMR), as well as providing feedback on solution design.

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