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Adding chest CT to VC not cost-effective, study finds
By Eric Barnes
Adding a chest CT scan to screening virtual colonoscopy isn't cost-effective in a cohort of average-risk patients, a new model-based analysis concluded. Although the additional anatomic coverage increased the clinical efficiency of CT-based screening, the combined test would not detect enough serious pathology to cover the costs of detection and follow-up of disease.
April 6, 2009
MedQuist taps Gold for VP post
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Speech recognition and transcription technology provider MedQuist has named Alan Gold as its new senior vice president of sales and marketing.
April 5, 2009
GE teams with Providence Health & Services
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare will work with Providence Health & Services to develop a new connectivity platform to integrate electronic records from hospitals with GE's Centricity electronic medical record.
April 5, 2009
TeraRecon shifts executive positions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The newly elected board of directors at advanced visualization firm TeraRecon has appointed founder and CEO Dr. Motoaki Saito to the posts of chairman and chief technology officer.
April 5, 2009
Siemens adds to Soarian installations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has announced new customer contracts and installations for its Soarian Clinicals enterprise-wide clinical workflow system.
April 5, 2009
Baylor employs Carestream's technology
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Optical molecular imaging technology from the molecular imaging division of Carestream Health is now in use at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), as part of BCM's cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious agents, and inflammatory disease research efforts.
April 5, 2009
Siemens, Harris partner on PACS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare and international communications and information technology firm Harris are collaborating on PACS disaster recovery technology.
April 5, 2009
Nuance unveils study, certification program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Speech recognition firm Nuance Communications has released the results of a new study that shows the company's Dragon Medical software can accelerate the transition to and utilization of electronic health records.
April 5, 2009
SonoSite shows early Q1 results
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Compact-ultrasound developer SonoSite posted modest gains in revenue in the first quarter of 2009.
April 5, 2009
Infinitt debuts disaster recovery services
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RIS/PACS vendor Infinitt North America is now offering offsite disaster recovery services to all of its customers.
April 5, 2009
Ultrasound probe cleaning education may be lacking
By Erik L. Ridley
NEW YORK CITY - Many residents and fellows are not being educated on the proper cleaning guidelines for ultrasound probes, a shortcoming that may increase the risk of patient infection, according to research from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.
April 5, 2009
World Health Imaging launches global mission
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new nonprofit group called the World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) has launched, with the goal of bringing digital medical imaging technology to the developing world.
April 5, 2009
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