Mevion Medical Systems will showcase its pencil beam scanning Hyperscan with Adaptive Aperture at the 2016 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, Sept. 25-28 in Boston. The advanced proton micro-multileaf collimator (mMLC) technology is integrated into the Mevion S250i with Hyperscan, making pencil beam scanning sharper and faster and delivering robust intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT).

The TeraMedica Division of Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. recently announced a significant business milestone in serving cancer center customers. The company’s Synapse VNA (vendor neutral archive), an enterprise-wide medical information and image management solution, is now installed at more than 300 oncology facilities worldwide for the management of cancer treatment data.

September 20, 2016 — A new study by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute examines how the incentives in an alternative payment model (APM) — the Accountable Care Organization Shared Savings Program (ACO SSP) — might influence cost, quality, utilization and technological investment for radiology practices. The paper, published in collaboration with industrial engineers from Virginia Tech, is available online in the journal Health Care Management Science.

GE Healthcare announced the global commercial launch of its new generation of high-end portable compact cardiovascular ultrasound, the Vivid iq, at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Rome in August.

Already last century (it feels strange writing that) someone, somewhere realized that laptops had enough horsepower to run simple ultrasound machines. Not long after that transducers were plugged in and … voila! The first consumer-based ultrasound scanner was born. 

September 20, 2016 — Cancer biologists know that inhibitor-mediated feedback loop changes (increased expression of a cell surface receptor in response to target inhibition) can result in breast cancer treatment failure and the need for additional therapy.

PACSHealth LLC announced that its DoseMonitor application will be the first software application to incorporate the National Cancer Institute dosimetry system for computed tomography (NCICT) for patient radiation dose monitoring. DoseMonitor automates the collection and reporting of medical imaging radiation dose indices to meet regulatory and operational compliance requirements in the United States and abroad.

Riverain Technologies announced that its ClearRead CT, a breakthrough nodule detection application, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Based in Denver, Diversified Radiology of Colorado (DRC) first adopted cross-enterprise imaging in the early 2000s. At the time, they were receiving a large number of orthopedic referrals and to meet the demand, elected to have their musculoskeletal specialist centrally located in order to interpret studies for multiple healthcare organizations. Founded by a single doctor in 1927, DRC is made up 60 radiologists, who serve 88 hospitals and 57 clinics across 18 states.

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