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SCAR hotline goes online
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) is bringing its SCAR Expert Hotline online. To be available on SCAR's Web site, the question-and-answer resource will be archived and updated online for access by both members and non-members, according to the Great Falls, VA-based society.
March 15, 2004
iCAD sales up in 2003, but firm remains in red
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection developer iCAD reported 2003 net sales of $6.5 million, up 30.4% compared with the $5 million booked in 2002.
March 15, 2004
AMS adds CD burner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS technology provider American Medical Sales has added a self-contained CD burner to its Catella PACS product family.
March 15, 2004
Actuality hires VP of engineering
Three-dimensional-software developer Actuality Systems has hired Yigal Banker as vice president of engineering.
March 15, 2004
ScImage, Stryker in orthopedic PACS deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS provider ScImage is teaming up with orthopedic medical device firm Stryker to offer an orthopedic-focused imaging and information management system based on ScImage’s PICOMEnterprise system.
March 15, 2004
Computer assistance aids mammographers in making more specific diagnosis, avoiding biopsy
By Shalmali Pal
Breast imaging specialists continue to fine-tune the role of computer-aided detection (CAD) and/or classification (CAC). One international group, from New York and Israel, has looked at how useful computer software is to mammographers in two different ways: In their first study, they used CAD to compare the shape of individual microcalcifications to clusters as a whole in diagnostic breast imaging. In the second paper, they applied CAC specifically to notoriously ambiguous BI-RADS 3 breast lesions.
March 15, 2004
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Task automation drives workflow enhancement
By Erik L. Ridley
SAN ANTONIO - Dr. Steven Horii discussed the process of reengineering workflow and UPMC’s extensive experience with digital image management at PACS 2004: Working in an Integrated Digital Healthcare Enterprise, sponsored by the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry last week.
March 14, 2004
PACS success relies on QA/QC procedures
By Erik L. Ridley
SAN ANTONIO - Commercial PACS networks are not designed to support comprehensive quality assurance (QA) practices; it’s up to the customer to implement these procedures, and radiologists have a pivotal role to play, according to Charles Willis, Ph.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston.
March 11, 2004
Analysts offer advice on keeping HIPAA security compliance simple
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
In an electronic presentation at the 2004 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Kristen Sostrom, information security analyst with Integrated Management Services in Arlington, VA, and Jeff Collmann, Ph.D., from the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, shared their thoughts on keeping HIPAA security simple.
March 11, 2004
Currency effects crimp Agfa’s healthcare sales
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Currency impact from a strong euro put the brakes on revenue growth at film and PACS vendor Agfa HealthCare of Mortsel, Belgium, with the division posting 2003 sales of 1.408 billion euros ($1.73 billion), down 5.6% compared to the year before. At stable exchange rates, however, Agfa HealthCare’s annual revenues would have grown 3.8%.
March 10, 2004
QSR execs form new company
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Three executives from digital radiology services provider Quick Study Radiology of St. Louis have purchased the company’s medical billing and practice management division and have formed a new enterprise called Evolutions.
March 10, 2004
3TP gets FDA clearance for MRI CAD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI computer-aided detection developer 3TP of Southampton, NY, has received Food and Drug Administration clearance for its contrast-enhanced MRI CAD technology.
March 10, 2004
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