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International survey shows increase in healthcare IT utilization
By Cynthia E. Keen
Primary care physicians around the world have been investing in health information technology, a 10-country survey sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund has found. Changes in health system performance will be critical to healthcare reform, according to the findings published in Health Affairs.
November 15, 2012
CAD can boost detection of small invasive breast cancers
By Erik L. Ridley
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology can yield high sensitivity, albeit with low specificity, for finding very small invasive breast cancers on full-field digital mammography studies, Spanish researchers have found.
November 14, 2012
Agfa inks collaboration with TRIBVN
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has signed a collaboration agreement with TRIBVN of Paris for the worldwide distribution of a package that will integrate digital pathology and radiology images, the company said.
November 13, 2012
Brainlab wins University of Munich contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Image-guided therapy firm Brainlab has signed an agreement with the Grosshadern Clinic branch of Munich University Hospital in Germany for its Buzz Digital operating room, a surgical information hardware and software package, the company said.
November 13, 2012
WorldCare Clinical expands globally
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The specialist imaging contract research organization WorldCare Clinical (WCC) is expanding into Brazil, Dubai, Poland, Spain, and Singapore.
November 13, 2012
Agfa secures Dutch PACS contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Máxima Medisch Centrum in the Netherlands to upgrade its RIS and PACS to extend to cardiology and nuclear medicine.
November 13, 2012
Wind of change sweeps through Russia
By Frances Rylands-Monk
Russian radiology still faces huge challenges in terms of equipment availability and variable education standards, but reforms are now being implemented and are already redressing the balance, noted Dr. Igor Tyurin, chief expert in radiology for the Ministry of Health, in an exclusive interview.
November 13, 2012
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Health IT investment set to grow in U.K.
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
U.K. National Health Service (NHS) acute trusts, or groups of hospitals, are expected to spend more than 800 million pounds (1 billion euros) per year on health IT by 2015, according to a report from market research firm EHI Intelligence.
November 12, 2012
GE debuts vendor-neutral archive
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare introduced its Centricity Clinical Archive vendor-neutral archive offering at the EHealth Insider (EHI) Live 2012 meeting held last week in Birmingham, U.K.
November 11, 2012
GE issues Centricity safety notice
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has issued an urgent field safety notice to users of its Centricity PACS warning of a potential loss of images associated with its Centricity to Centricity exam transfer module.
November 11, 2012
Vendor-neutral archiving addresses deficiencies of PACS
By Dr. Neelam Dugar
PACS is the global leader in the world of health informatics. Underpinning the success of PACS is the global open and vendor-neutral standard of DICOM. PACS has been the most universally successful clinical IT system, and radiology has been the speciality that has led the world in the adoption of DICOM and PACS.
November 11, 2012
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Social networking blunders can jeopardize traineeships
By Eric Barnes
What you post on social media can hurt you, especially if you're applying for a traineeship, according to a new BMJ study that surveyed personnel in charge of reviewing applications from potential medical residents and students.
November 8, 2012
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