National Cancer Institute (NCI) Acting Director Douglas Lowy, M.D., accepted the recommendations of a Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP) on 10 scientific approaches most likely to make a decade’s worth of progress against cancer in five years under the Cancer Moonshot.

September 12, 2016 — University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) doctors have found what may be an earlier and easier way to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The disorder is thought to affect some former football players and others with a history of repetitive brain trauma.

September 9, 2016 — Radiologists and medical imaging business managers will gain practical management skills to align their business operations with new healthcare models at the American College of Radiology (ACR)-Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) Practice Leaders Forum, Jan. 13-15, 2017 in Orlando, Fla.

September 9, 2016 — ScImage will showcase updates to its enterprise imaging solution, including the launch of its new cloud picture archiving and communication system (PACS), PICOM365.com, at the 2016 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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September 9, 2016 — The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) recently launched into its next phase, ADNI3, thanks to a $40 million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ADNI3 — part of the long-running NIH-supported ADNI study investigating brain and fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s — will couple the NIH award with anticipated private sector contributions of $20 million through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).

September 9, 2016 — RamSoft announced the introduction of its new Remote Rendering solution for medical image processing. With Remote Rendering, images are streamed to you much like an online webinar, eliminating the need to download mass amounts of data to your computer. This process significantly improves efficiency and reduces the response time from click to display.

September 8, 2016 — The Carestream OnSight 3D Extremity System that uses cone beam CT (CBCT) technology to capture weight-bearing and other types of extremity exams has received FDA 510(k) clearance and is available for order in the United States.

This affordable, compact system offers high-quality, lower-dose 3-D imaging studies for use by orthopedic and sports medicine practices, hospitals, imaging centers, urgent care facilities and other healthcare providers.

Technological and administrative obstacles are significantly cutting into available time for physicians to engage with patients. 

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