Gunter Dombrowe, managing director of Siemens Healthcare sector in the U.K. and healthcare sector lead for the northwest Europe cluster, will retire at the end of March.
TeraRecon released version 4.4.7 of its iNtuition enterprise image management system with enhanced support for interoperability and quantitative imaging at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting, held in Vienna, March 2-5.
Philips Healthcare has installed its Ingenuity TF whole-body PET/MR imaging system at Turku University Hospital in Turku, Finland.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding Stage 2 meaningful use (MU) on the Office of the Federal Register’s public inspection desk on Feb. 23. Although the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has not released its NPRM on Stage 2 standards, specifications and certification criteria, key players have indicated that the agencies have taken into account many of the requests made by the American College of Radiology (ACR) and other imaging stakeholders.
The Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ontario, will install Siemen’s Biograph mMR, a synchronous MR/PET system.
The American Cancer Society, in an effort to reduce future projected cancers from diagnostic imaging procedures, outlined some limitations and enhancements to current appropriateness criteria used for making decisions about imaging and also offered some CT exam recommendations for clinicians in an article published online Feb. 3 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has reversed a lower court decision and held that installed MRI and PET/CT systems at Northeastern Pennsylvania Imaging Center should be treated as personal property for sales tax purposes.
The malignancy rate for MR-detected breast masses less than or equal to 5 mm has been shown to be greater than 20 percent, indicating that these small masses should be viewed with a high degree of suspicion when seen in staging breast MRI exams, according to a study published in the January issue of Academic Radiology.
The services and allowed charges by cardiologists for treating Medicare patients increased dramatically between 1999 and 2008, according to an analysis published online Jan. 10 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Much of the growth was linked to noninvasive imaging, with resting echocardiograms and nuclear stress testing fueling the lion’s share of growth.
Interoperability and imaging IT company Merge Healthcare has locked an installation contract for its iConnect software at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Porter Hospital in Valparaiso, Ind., has purchased Merge’s iConnect image interoperability platform.
Siemens Healthcare sponsored a series of symposia and showcased its most recent CT scanner and image interpretation software at this year’s meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has been named a Center of Quantitative Imaging Excellence by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Health IT company TeraRecon showed iNtuition advanced visualization and cloud products at this year’s scientific meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.
Embedding clinical decision support (CDS) into PACS significantly increases the likelihood that radiologists will use the software, but integration must occur at the time of implementation, otherwise physicians may become loath to change their workflows, concluded a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Just as PACS liberated studies from their confinement to hard film, so CDs and cloud computing are enabling image sharing across institutions, communities and beyond. But as the cloud buzz grows louder, a group of presenters at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) argued on Thursday that the technology may be green—and ultimately inferior to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative.
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