Equipment: Page 40

GMI buys Trident Imaging Services
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound service provider Global Medical Imaging (GMI) has acquired Trident Imaging Services of League City, TX.
April 12, 2010
Final answer on equipment use rate: 75% in 2011
By Kate Madden Yee
The U.S. Medicare program will use a 75% rate for medical imaging equipment utilization starting in January 2011, after Democrats beat back a Republican amendment that would have stricken the new rate from the healthcare reform bill.
March 25, 2010
Block, M-Cast form joint venture
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Refurbished equipment supplier Block Imaging International has inked a joint venture agreement with M-Cast, a subsidiary of Japanese leasing firm Mitsubishi UFJ Leasing and Finance.
March 16, 2010
Absolute Imaging partners with Larcher Medical
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Absolute Imaging Solutions of Oak Ridge, NC, has partnered with Larcher Medical Imaging of Sherrills Ford, NC, for the sales and service of cardiac PET systems.
March 16, 2010
MedQuist revenues dip in 2009
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lower prices for its transcription services and declining maintenance revenues adversely affected 2009 net revenues for speech recognition and transcription technology provider MedQuist.
March 14, 2010
ECR 2010
To highlight its refurbishing capabilities, Toshiba Medical Systems Europe is demonstrating a reconditioned ultrasound cart trimmed in red and outfitted with an espresso maker.
March 4, 2010
GE's Vscan to be used at Olympics
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare said that its new pocket-sized ultrasound scanner will be used at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
February 18, 2010
MRI used in heart valve operation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Surgeons at King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Center in London recently used MRI, rather than x-ray, to guide a procedure to widen a heart valve in a 6-year-old boy.
January 13, 2010
Survey: EMR use increased in 2008
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Physicians working in office-based practices in the U.S. increased their use of electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR) by 18.7% between 2007 and 2008, according to the results of a new survey.
January 10, 2010
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Imaging widely used for RT planning
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Advanced imaging technologies are widely used for target delineation in planning radiation therapy by both academic and private practice radiation oncologists in the U.S., according to the results of a national survey of published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
December 14, 2009
Platinum Medical Parts, Eclipse Medical Imaging combine
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
After-market service providers Platinum Medical Parts and Eclipse Medical Imaging have merged to form Platinum Medical Imaging.
November 25, 2009
Study uses MRI to better detect Alzheimer's
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a method to quantify subtle, subregional brain volume loss using MRI, which promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, according to the November 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
November 16, 2009
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