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GE adds two ultrasound execs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has added two imaging veterans to its ultrasound business.
March 21, 2010
ACR opposes healthcare bill's imaging cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) wasted no time in voicing its opposition to medical imaging reimbursement cuts in the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HR 4872) passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night.
March 21, 2010
Regional utilization rate per 100,000 beneficiary population of grouped noninvasive diagnostic imaging procedures, 2007
March 21, 2010
2010 03 22 00 06 30 682 2010 03 22 Utilization Table3
Study offers more nuanced view of U.S. imaging use rates
By Kate Madden Yee
Substantial regional variations in imaging utilization rates exist across the U.S., but the differences are not as high as reported in previous studies, according to new research published in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
March 21, 2010
2010 03 21 22 50 56 896 2010 03 22 Utilization1
SNM warns of 'significant disruptions' in Mo-99 supply
By Wayne Forrest
With a confluence of nuclear reactor shutdowns around the world this week, SNM is warning nuclear medicine practitioners to brace for the "one of the most significant disruptions ever in the supply of molybdenum-99" (Mo-99) from March 21 to April 11.
March 21, 2010
CareCore settles with NY imaging firm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology benefits management (RBM) firm CareCore National has settled litigation with a New York imaging firm that claimed that it was unfairly excluded from the RBM's network.
March 21, 2010
U.K. hospitals speed reporting times with speech recognition
By Cynthia E. Keen
With sufficient planning, a radiology department in a large, busy urban hospital can successfully adopt speech recognition to dictate and self-edit radiology reports -- and achieve a dramatic improvement in report turnaround times, according to an article in the British Journal of Radiology.
March 18, 2010
Radiology societies comment on HIT stimulus
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Believing that the proposed implementation of the U.S. healthcare IT (HIT) stimulus plan fails to take into account the needs of radiology, four major radiology organizations have joined forces to request changes by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
March 16, 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
SenoRx CEO passes away
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lloyd Malchow, chairman and CEO of breast brachytherapy developer SenoRx, died March 14.
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
AIUM gets MSK guideline support
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) has collaborated with four other professional societies to endorse its recent AIUM Training Guidelines for the Performance of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Examinations.
March 15, 2010
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