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Fujifilm to sponsor ARRS grants
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
For the fourth year, Fujifilm Medical Systems USA of Stamford, CT, will fund educational travel grants to the American Roentgen Ray Society's (ARRS) annual meeting.
January 22, 2008
ACR teams with iCAD on CAD CT colonography
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is partnering with computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD to study whether the Nashua, NH-based company's CT Colon CAD system will help radiologists interpreting virtual colonoscopy (CT colonography [CTC]) to detect more colorectal polyps and cancers than without the iCAD system.
January 21, 2008
Final RSNA numbers show attendance edging up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Final attendance numbers released this week by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) show attendance at the Oak Brook, IL, society's annual meeting rising slightly over the previous year, but still hitting a record number of attendees.
January 16, 2008
New U.S. budget funds nuclear medicine programs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) budget for fiscal 2008 will include $17.5 million for nuclear medicine research programs.
January 13, 2008
ACR touts RADPAC money gains
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) reports that its political action group (PAC) RADPAC had a record-breaking year in 2007.
January 9, 2008
Pending Medicare decision roils cardiac CTA
By Eric Barnes
On December 13, 2007, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a wholesale change in the way coronary CT angiography (CTA) is reimbursed under Medicare. The proposal would severely limit payments for coronary CTA, and cardiac imaging providers are racing against the clock to prevent its implementation.
January 7, 2008
ABII lauds new CIIPs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII) said that 84 imaging informatics professionals received certification as a Certified Imaging Informatics Professional (CIIP) following administration of the ABII exam in September.
January 7, 2008
ACR issues 'anti-markup' recommendations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is recommending that members who interpret diagnostic studies for clinicians, independent diagnostic testing facilities (IDTFs), and other providers should heed the decision by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to delay implementing most of its tighter "anti-markup" provisions until January 1, 2009.
January 6, 2008
Ultrasound contrast advocates take aim at FDA black box warning
By Cynthia E. Keen
Advocates of ultrasound contrast have launched a grassroots lobbying effort to persuade the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to relax its recent black box warning on the use of two echocardiography contrast agents. The group believes the FDA warning was unnecessarily strident given the safety profile of ultrasound contrast, and that the warning could hamstring further clinical use of cardiac ultrasound contrast.
January 2, 2008
ASRT: First-year enrollments flat
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A survey from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) shows that entering-class enrollments in radiography, radiation therapy, and nuclear medicine programs in 2007 remained steady.
December 20, 2007
ACR advises on Tc-99m shortage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Reston, VA-based American College of Radiology (ACR) says "severe cutbacks" are occurring in nuclear cardiology with the loss of more than 50% of the North American molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) supply, due to the prolonged shutdown of the Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ottawa, Canada.
December 10, 2007
AIUM, ACEP publish FAST guidelines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) have jointly published guidelines covering how to perform focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) examinations.
December 6, 2007
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