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  <title><![CDATA[House bill would close Stark in-office loophole]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Legislation has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives that would close a loophole in federal law that enables physicians to self-refer patients for imaging studies as long as the exams are performed in their own offices.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:09:58 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Building a Better PACS: Part 3 -- Look before you leap]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Choosing a PACS is often too much like speed dating, according to PACS consultant Michael J. Cannavo. In Part 3 of this series, Cannavo advises on how to get the most out of the onsite visit and nagivate the other complications of PACS decision-making.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CDs may come up short in long-term storage reliability]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Legacy PACS users who still have CD media in their archives may find their disks are not as reliable as their vendors would have them believe, according to research from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[FDG-PET benefits findings in children with refractory epilepsy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A new study from Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston shows that while PET and MRI work well together in guiding surgery for children with refractory epilepsy, PET may have an edge in several areas.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[PET/CT improves preoperative staging of non-small cell lung cancer]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 2 - Combined positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) improves the staging of non-small cell lung cancer and also reduces the numbers of total and futile thoracotomies, Danish researchers report in the July 2 <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CMS pitches 90% use rate in proposed 2010 MPFS rule]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In a move sure to strike fear in the hearts of imaging advocates, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 1 laid out a 90% equipment utilization rate in its proposed rule for the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS).]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:33:59 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Philips ships Veradius digital surgical c-arm]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Philips Healthcare has starting shipping Veradius, a surgical c-arm with a flat-panel digital detector.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:12:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Imaging lands on list of IOM research priorities]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Nearly a dozen imaging-related topics are on a list of 100 research priorities published by the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) indicating areas that should receive priority for funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Childhood cancer survivors at risk for pregnancy complications]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Women who received radiation therapy for childhood cancers such as leukemia have a higher risk of complications during pregnancy and need to be closely monitored, researchers told attendees at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology annual conference this week.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:28:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Web site educates patients about radiation dose]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Radiology residents from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston have created a Web site for patients to calculate and record the radiation doses of common diagnostic imaging procedures.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:19:55 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Aspyra rearranges top management]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Healthcare IT firm Aspyra has made changes in its management team as part of a reorganization effort.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:34:59 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Telemis taps new French subsidiary head]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[PACS vendor Telemis has named Philippe Mabille as operation manager for its French subsidiary, Telemis-Electrom.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:33:56 GMT</pubDate>
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