U.S. death rate has dropped in latest data (2006) from CDC.
HHS Secretary announces 12 communities selected to advance use of Electronic Health Records.
ACUSON SC2000 is the world's first echocardiography system to acquire instantaneous, non-stitched full-volume images of the heart in a single heartbeat.
Medical University of South Carolina becomes one of the first clinical installations of world's first adaptive CT scanner.
The stakes are high when taking a bite this summer.
Funds will support framework to enhance import safety presented last year.
Competitive bidding program provides access to high quality products and services available from Medicare-contract suppliers.
Innovative imaging informatics solutions to be expanded into image intensive departments and integrated with existing Hospital Information System.
Carestream Health's PACS platform earns high praise in MD Buyline study for first quarter of 2008.
Radiopharmaceutical guidelines should establish consistent dosage standards, according to The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
A new study has found that CT screening may reduce lung cancer mortality in current and former smokers. Lung-cancer deaths were reduced 28 percent, but overall mortality only 4 percent.
NAHIT positions itself as advocate for health IT.
Adding radiation therapy to surgery has a better improvement rate for patients than by treating with surgery alone, according to a study in the June issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official Journal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.
American College of Physicians backs Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008.
3T MRI can accurately help surgeons plan surgery for patients with rectal cancer.
Physician Office Fundamentals in Risk Management and Patient Safety is a helpful new resource.
FDA article helps identify common problems and solutions.
The OEM's update on a story that broke previously in DOTmed Online News.
Proactive monitoring and data mining combine to enhance installed base performance.
Basic medical care needed.
Provides proactive notification of system events.
Molecular Imaging of Cancer: from Molecules to Humans supplement now available.
Organization's patient records are "going automatic."
Twelve outstanding students receive $10,000 scholarships to help with escalating cost of medical school.
Modern 3-D computed tomography (CT) is an effective method for locating prostatic apex.
American College of Physicians releases a policy paper that shows how it would be possible for all Americans to have access to affordable health insurance coverage.
New service helps hospitals with capital equipment inventory and patient safety alerts and recalls.
MS 3 measures the non-uniformity of magnetic resonance images in order to characterize the low spatial frequency non-uniformities typical of such images.
New Joint Commission's 18-month study is designed to identify broad principles and guidelines for the presentation of electronic hospital quality information.
Funds will assist public health departments, hospitals and other health care organizations to strengthen their ability to respond to public health and medical emergencies as a result of a terrorism attack or naturally occurring event.
Arrangement with GE strengthens Atlantis Worldwide's C-Arm inventory.
An Australian clinic puts up $1 million for a radiologist.
Digirad Corporation and Johns Hopkins cardiologists will work together to read diagnostic images of patients.
Digitec Medical and Sonora Medical Systems join forces to market, sell and distribute Digitec's mammography offerings in the Midwest and Western United States.
CFC-propelled inhalers no longer available as of Dec. 31, 2008.
Whole milk is effective and cost-effective as oral contrast agent according to a recent study.
Fusion PACS MX 3.0 uses advanced platform technology to launch Merge Mammo 7.10 right at PACS workstation.
Report finds millions more children would be insured, have healthcare, avoid developmental delays if all states performed as well as Iowa, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that this market earned revenues of $213.8 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $370.5 million in 2014.
Study in Archives of Internal Medicine.
Study to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting May 31.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) are exploring increased collaborative efforts to benefit members of both organizations and advance the profession of radiology.
There is no difference in death rates or other outcomes between patients with acute kidney injury receiving intensive dialysis and those receiving a more standard regimen of dialysis.
Justice Department announces resolution.
Study published in Archives of Internal Medicine supports use of Q-CPR(TM) technology to improve CPR quality.
Siemens rushes urgent medical equipment to the Sichuan region and establishes 24-Hour emergency task force.
For the seventh year in a row, GE Healthcare has won Omega Management Group's prestigious NorthFace ScoreBoard Award(tm) for excellence in customer satisfaction and loyalty in servicing anesthesia machines and patient monitors.
American Heart Association endorses medical device use.
Agfa HealthCare's new solutions make radiologists better informed, more productive.
Brings innovation and renowned image quality to portable imaging applications.
