Industry News: Page 793

Medic Vision awarded dose patent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image reconstruction software developer Medic Vision Imaging Solutions has been granted a patent (No. 9693747) for the company's XR-29 Dose Check software.

July 18, 2017

Toshiba touts money savings with CT for stroke care

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Toshiba Medical is highlighting the money savings realized by one of its customer sites using its Aquilion One flagship CT scanner for stroke care.

July 18, 2017

Avreo releases cloud-based speech software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiology workflow software developer Avreo has released Avreo Cloud VR, a new software component that enables radiologists to create image interpretations with cloud-based speech technology from any location where they use the company's interWorks package.

July 18, 2017

EOS makes executive moves

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Orthopedic digital radiography developer EOS Imaging has named Mike Lobinsky to the newly created position of president, North America, and Pierre Schwich to the post of chief financial officer.

July 18, 2017

PET is center of attention at U.K. Alzheimer's conference

By Wayne Forrest

While PET can accurately detect or exclude Alzheimer's disease by imaging beta-amyloid plaques in the brain, the modality is underutilized in clinical care, according to research presented this week at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in London.

July 18, 2017

'Repeal and replace' dies as GOP senators pull support

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The effort by Senate Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act collapsed July 17 when two more GOP senators said they would oppose the legislation, according to a Politico report.

July 17, 2017

Philips to acquire imaging software firm TomTec

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Royal Philips has signed an agreement to acquire German imaging software developer TomTec Imaging Systems.

July 17, 2017

GE, Jefferson ink efficiency partnership

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has signed an eight-year, shared-risk contract to help Jefferson Health strategically transform patient and family healthcare delivery in the Philadelphia area.

July 16, 2017

Proposed 2018 OPPS offers some positives for radiology

By Kate Madden Yee

On July 13, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a proposed rule for the 2018 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System that includes some positive changes for radiology -- the most important being a delay in changing how CT and MRI costs are calculated.

July 16, 2017

Philips partners on CT dose management initiative

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Royal Philips and West Physics are collaborating to create a CT radiation dose management program designed to help healthcare systems comply with new requirements from accrediting and regulatory bodies.

July 16, 2017

ACR finds favorable signs in 2018 MPFS proposed rule

By Kate Madden Yee

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has found several things to like in the proposed rule for the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has backed down on a threatened mammography payment cut, while giving radiology a breather on using clinical decision support.

July 16, 2017

ScImage lands WVU Medicine installation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PACS vendor ScImage has won a contract to install its Picom365 enterprise PACS software in the eight-hospital health network operated by West Virginia University Health System (WVU Medicine).

July 16, 2017

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