CardiArc recently released a cardiac SPECT system with reportedly twice the resolution of existing devices designed to ...
For most of us, handheld devices put the “fun” in functional. In the medical world, these tools do much more — they help save lives.
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ACT: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...
Clinicians and referring physicians need fast, secure access to both patient data and their diagnostic or viewing tool ...
Chest pain is a common complaint among ED patients, yet failure to diagnose acute myocardial infarction in the trauma ...
Talk to the purveyors and supporters of digital radiography (DR) and you’ll hear that it’s the wave of the future and ultimately where the technology is headed – arguably replacing its earlier generation sibling, computed radiography (CR). However, raise that prospect with the CR crowd and you’ll likely hear something dramatically different.
About 10 years ago a close friend received some very bad news, but, oddly, she was happy about it. My friend was ...
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS24) Conference and Exhibition (March 12-14, in Orlando, Fla.) is ...
Anyone who remembers – or for that matter, still uses – single-slice CT scanners can appreciate the dramatic ...
Imagine for a moment, if something along these lines actually had happened. Back in the early 1990s when the debut of ...
One of the most prominent figures in nuclear medicine in the last half-century is Dr. Henry Wagner of Johns Hopkins ...
Agfa Radiology Solutions is committed to enhancing clinical outcomes and operational efficiency, underscoring its ...
What are some of the noteworthy growth areas for computed tomography (CT) applications today and why are they so popular ...
Even a representative from one of the nation’s leading single-use device (SUD) reprocessors says he understands the ...
Acquiring used equipment carries with it certain stereotypes that span the spectrum of good to bad. Facilities that ...
Mary Washington Hospital (MWH), part of MediCorp Health Systems in Fredericksburg, VA, has been the area’s premier ...
A 30-year-old woman arrives in the emergency room with “abdominal cramping and vaginal bleeding. A physical examination ...
All hospitals today face challenges, but none comes close to matching the recent experiences of Louisiana hospitals ...
Not too long ago, the capability of precisely directing and guiding a potent beam of radiation to eradicate a cancerous tumor without harming the healthy tissue around it was a pipe dream. Fodder for the imagination and science fiction.
It is no surprise that during the past several years, the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ...