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Digital breast tomo cuts callback rate in screening setting
By Shalmali Pal
If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then the digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images are undeniably powerful: lesions that manage to hide on conventional mammography exams are easily exposed by DBT. But does this dramatic improvement in tissue visualization lead to significant changes in the cancer screening setting? Yes, according to researchers at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). They noted a marked reduction in the callback rate for women screened with tomosynthesis at MGH.
December 19, 2007
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Making dollars and sense out of Medicaid and FFDM reimbursement
By Marty Graham
With the emergence of digital mammography, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created a new billing code to differentiate digital from the longstanding code for analog. However, the existence of the new code doesn't mean it's being used or even acknowledged on the state level. Some Medicaid programs recognize it and reimburse accordingly, while other states don't pay for it at all. To help clear up the situation, AuntMinnie.com took on the task of compiling FFDM policies and reimbursement rates for all 50 states.
December 19, 2007
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Full-field digital mammography (FFDM) reimbursement by state
December 19, 2007
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Confirma expands partnership with GE
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer Confirma of Bellevue, WA, has extended its partnership with Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based GE Healthcare to offer service to GE customers with CADstream.
December 17, 2007
Medipattern lands Italian customer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer Medipattern has installed its B-CAD software at General Hospital in Gorizia, Italy.
December 16, 2007
Catching undetected cancer with MR plus mammo in high-risk women outweighs costs
By Edward Susman
SAN ANTONIO - The American Cancer Society has given its stamp of approval to mammography plus MRI screening in women with a higher risk for breast cancer, but what's the economic impact of that dual-modality paradigm? The increase in breast cancer detection would justify the high price of the MR exam, although that cost-effectiveness does depend on the specific type of risk a woman carries, according to the authors of a new study.
December 16, 2007
Elasticity imaging finds breast tumors based on shape, volume
By Edward Susman
Real-time elasticity imaging can improve the characterization of breast lesions while also serving as a tool to determine if biopsy is necessary, according to a multicenter study presented at the 2007 RSNA meeting in Chicago. The investigators presented an update of the results of a 2006 single-center study on breast elasticity imaging.
December 13, 2007
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Carestream releases digital mammo CAD software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has launched new computer-aided detection (CAD) software for its CR-based mammography systems in Europe and Canada.
December 10, 2007
Florida insurer requires preauthorization for digital mammo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Florida Today is reporting that Brevard County's largest healthcare insurer, Health First Health Plans, is requiring women who want digital mammograms for breast cancer screening to first receive authorization from the company.
December 10, 2007
iCAD adds two CAD patents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD has received two new patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
December 9, 2007
Hologic to issue $1.5 billion note
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Women's imaging vendor Hologic of Bedford, MA, yesterday priced an offering of convertible senior notes worth $1.5 billion.
December 5, 2007
Sectra grows sales in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Increased international sales of its medical systems powered Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra to improved financial results in the first half of the Linköping-based company's fiscal year.
December 3, 2007
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