Clinical News: Page 1771

Novarad wins 5 international contracts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RIS/PACS firm Novarad has won five international contracts for its NovaPACS and NovaRIS software, the company said.
August 28, 2012
Varian files suit against Elekta
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy vendor Varian Medical Systems has filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court against radiation oncology firm Elekta, claiming that Elekta employees improperly gained access to Varian trade secret information, Elekta said.
August 28, 2012
Report: DR market to reach $13B in 2018
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The increasing adoption of telemedicine and medical telemetry will boost the digital radiology market over the next six years, according to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research. The market is expected to reach $13.3 billion globally in 2018.
August 28, 2012
Study finds frequent incidental findings at MDCT urography
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital are finding more than urinary problems in their MDCT scans for patients with hematuria, according to a new study in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
August 28, 2012
Prototype shows potential for patient-centered image sharing
By Erik L. Ridley
Current image-sharing methods based on CDs are burdensome to both patients and providers alike and also raise privacy concerns. However, researchers from Wake Forest University have developed a patient-controlled prototype image-sharing framework that aims to tackle those problems.
August 28, 2012
New RADExpo 2012 event; 320-row CT cardiac perfusion; is screening overused?
By Brian Casey
August 27, 2012
CMS schedules amyloid PET review
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has scheduled a meeting for January 30, 2013, to review evidence on the use of beta-amyloid PET imaging for managing dementia and neurodegenerative disease.
August 27, 2012
Gamma Medica files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma Medica voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 20 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California in Woodland Hills.
August 27, 2012
ESC: 320-detector-row CTA plus perfusion helps triage patients
By Eric Barnes
A two-step heart test consisting of 320-detector-row CT angiography (CTA) followed by CT perfusion helps separate patients who need invasive angiography from those who do not, according to results of the international CORE 320 study presented on Monday at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich.
August 27, 2012
Siemens lands 1st U.S. Definition Edge install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has completed the first U.S. installation of its Somatom Definition Edge CT scanner at NYU Langone Medical Center.
August 27, 2012
Faxitron lands Premier deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Specimen radiography vendor Faxitron has landed a group purchasing agreement to provide its products and services to the Premier healthcare purchasing alliance.
August 27, 2012
Commercial screening tests, imaging overuse spike health costs
By Kate Madden Yee
Screening tests that are sold directly to consumers by commercial firms without physician referrals inflate healthcare costs and erode efforts to provide high-value care -- and medical imaging is a big part of the problem, according to a pair of opinion articles published on August 27 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
August 27, 2012
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