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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
NHS awards new contract to BT Health
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare telecommunications provider BT Health is to take over responsibility for supporting hospitals in the south of England as part of the U.K.'s Connecting for Health information technology project.
April 5, 2009
GE signs Qatar IT deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with an IT services provider in Qatar covering the systems integration of GE Centricity healthcare IT software, including its Centricity Enterprise package.
April 5, 2009
MedCurrent tackles front end of insurance verification
By Brian Casey
A new start-up company is bringing to market software that tackles the thorny issue of patient insurance verification. MedCurrent is taking a different approach to the process, offering a service that vets patients' insurance status prior to imaging studies being performed, rather than after the fact.
April 5, 2009
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MDCT holds promise for advanced osteoporosis scan
By Eric Barnes
CT could become an important player in the emerging field of structural bone assessment, according to researchers from Berlin and San Francisco. They believe the modality is capable of evaluating trabecular structures from the extremities to the vertebrae, outperforming even high-resolution peripheral quantitative CT (HR-pQCT) in some conditions.
April 5, 2009
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Future of ultrasound will require technology, educational gains
By Erik L. Ridley
NEW YORK CITY - Continued advances in technology, quality, and education will be necessary for ultrasound to secure its role in the future, according to Dr. Alfred Kurtz, professor of radiology and obstetrics/gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College in Philadelphia.
April 3, 2009
British rads blast U.K. IT initiative
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.K.'s rollout of a nationwide healthcare IT network has resulted in isolated local PACS networks that are unable to efficiently share and transfer electronic diagnostic imaging files and related reports.
April 2, 2009
GE teams with Microsoft on IT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare and Microsoft have entered into a software vendor alliance to provide customers with enhanced healthcare IT administration capabilities that support GE's Centricity Enterprise healthcare IT technology.
April 2, 2009
UltraRad, StructuRad add Valor Network
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS vendor UltraRad and radiology reporting software developer StructuRad have installed their integrated PACS, reporting, and distribution product at Valor Network.
April 2, 2009
Carestream takes SuperPACS orders
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health will begin taking orders for its SuperPACS metaPACS architecture and will highlight new PACS enhancements at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting.
April 2, 2009
GE rolls out 500th Logiq E9 scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has reached a milestone with the production and sale of its 500th Logiq E9 ultrasound system.
April 2, 2009
FDA warns of sandbags in MRI suites
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Sandbags that contain metal shavings could pose a hazard in MRI suites, according to an alert issued Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
April 2, 2009
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