McKesson - Horizon Rad Station
McKesson features at RSNA 2009 its PACS radiology workstation, Horizon Rad Station, which offers a flexible solution to leverage investments already made in radiology PACS...
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 | Top 10 Considerations for PACS Replacement
Once you’ve had a PACS in place, be it a few months or a few years, you pretty much know virtually everything about it.
You know how it works, how to use it to get the...
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PET Imaging Shows Its Effectiveness
Linking medical imaging to patient outcomes has long been a struggle for the medical community. But when Columbia University released study results showing increased...
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Hybrid Suites Open New Doors
As cutting-edge technologies collide with innovative treatments, a hybrid approach is emerging as the best path of action. In recent years, hospitals across the globe have...
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 | Is Outpatient Imaging On Its Way Out?
If you thought Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) was draconian, you may do a double-take at the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). While the 2010 schedule has not been...
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 | CAD Improves Breast MRI Workflow
Cancer mortality rates have decreased as new technologies have been introduced into the field of healthcare, but these new technologies can sometimes present new...
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 | Interventional Radiology Breaks New Ground
For more than a decade, Barry T. Katzen, M.D., medical director of Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute (BCVI) in Miami, Fla., has pioneered the integration of surgical...
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Will Radiology Embrace e-Ordering?
In the past five years, no sector of healthcare has had as big a target on its back as has advanced diagnostic imaging services. Representatives of commercial insurance...
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Will Radiology Embrace e-Ordering?
In the past five years, no sector of healthcare has had as big a target on its back as has advanced diagnostic imaging services. Representatives of commercial insurance...
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 | Brakes on CTA and MRA
The importance of dealing with the epidemic of coronary artery disease (CAD) is well known, and the tools at our disposal to accurately recognize and manage it are evolving...
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 | Forecast for Image Storage Looks Cloudy
Data storage for any application is an assumed liability for all users. Whether capacity is expected on a laptop, cellular phone or clinical application, users of specific...
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 | Radiation Oncology Faces a Data Tsunami
In a short time, the field of radiation oncology has experienced an explosion in imaging data. With large volumes of images generated across the course of treatment —...
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 | What HITECH Means to Medical Imaging
When David Blumenthal, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine1, “Information is the lifeblood of modern...
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 | Radiology IT Explores New Frontiers
February 4, 2010 - “Information is the lifeblood of modern medicine. Health information technology is destined to be its circulatory system.”1
When...
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 | Change in TMN Staging System Validated
January 13, 2010 – Research validates the efficacy of the recent reclassification of the T category in the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer’s...
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 | Search for the Ideal PACS
How do you define the ideal PACS workstation? There is no single answer just multiple solutions. Which one is right for your radiology department? That depends on the...
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 | Imaging Outlook 2010
With the combined impact of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), the credit crisis, the economic slowdown, and the uncertainty of pending healthcare reform legislation, we have...
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 | Image Is Everything
How would you feel about having an operation done by a blindfolded surgeon? While the most skilled surgeon could likely do the procedure with a measure of success, the...
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 | “Child-Size” Radiation Dose
There is no doubt that medical imaging procedures save lives. However, one size does not fit all. Because children are three to five times more sensitive to radiation...
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 | VMAT Puts a New Spin on Planning
Since volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) became available in the U.S., it has taken off in radiation oncology as fast as it treats and cures patients.
The promise...
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GPS for the Body Targets Prostate
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for men after lung cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that 29,412 men died from prostate cancer in...
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 | Protecting Radiology from Predatory Trends
The impact teleradiology services have had on the radiology community is vast and well-known. Radiologists no longer have to take call at night and no longer face tedious...
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 | Breast Imaging Sets New Standards
In the ongoing battle to improve breast cancer detection and diagnosis, full-field digital mammography has held steady as the first line of defense. But recent developments...
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 | CAD Surpasses Limits of Lymph Node Imaging
Lymph nodes are a primary site of metastatic spread for almost all malignant tumors. Tracking changes to lymph node burden and lymph node staging has become increasingly...
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