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Errors in MRI; PACS in Israel; ESR's training guidelines
By Philip Ward
July 5, 2011
10 golden rules for PACS implementation: Tips from Israel
By Frances Rylands-Monk
In the second part of our profile of the Clalit organization, Israel's largest health organization, Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum offers practical advice on how to achieve success with digital systems.
July 4, 2011
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Enterprise-wide PACS enhances patient management in Israel
By Frances Rylands-Monk
Israel's largest health organization, Clalit, is aiming to lever its recently installed PACS to improve workflow by creating shared worklists for imaging specialists. AuntMinnieEurope.com is pleased to present the first part of our profile of the Clalit organization, focusing on how PACS is bringing important clinical gains.
July 3, 2011
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Open-source software fills niche needs in medicine
By Eric Barnes
Should you join the open-source software movement? A presenter at the recent Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) congress considers open-source software a great idea and outlined a way for interested medical researchers to try their hand at open-source software development.
June 27, 2011
Sectra to sell mammography business to Philips
By Philip Ward
Sectra is selling the vast majority of its mammography division to Philips Healthcare for 57.5 million euros ($82 million U.S.) to focus on developing its medical imaging IT business, as well as its orthopedics, osteoporosis assessment, and rheumatology portfolios.
June 26, 2011
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Medicine is not mathematics -- radiology reports are opinions
By Dr. Neelam Dugar
It is vital that IT solutions support best clinical practices and the interests of patients. Systems need to support clinical workflows for documenting multiple opinions/supplementary reports, said regular columnist Dr. Neelam Dugar.
June 26, 2011
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CT reveals gender differences in metabolic syndrome
By Eric Barnes
Men and women show important differences in the fat distribution patterns associated with metabolic syndrome as visualized on CT, according to a new study. The research was based on low-dose images acquired for virtual colonoscopy screening, hinting at potentially added value for VC studies.
June 26, 2011
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CARS: Flawed methodology invalidates many breast CAD studies
By Eric Barnes
BERLIN - For decades researchers have been evaluating computer-aided detection (CAD) software to see if it can find more breast cancers. But most of these studies are invalid, charged a U.S. researcher in a presentation at the 2011 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) congress.
June 22, 2011
CARS: Personalized medicine at last reaches the patient
By Eric Barnes
BERLIN - Planning for the era of personalized medicine -- a science and an art that combines genetics and patient histories with imaging and population-based atlases -- is finally giving way to real treatment of real patients, according to a presentation on the first day of the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting.
June 21, 2011
Sectra enters Russian market
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra has inked a distribution agreement with Russian distributor McBrothers.
June 21, 2011
ISCT: Dual-energy virtual colonoscopy simplifies cancer staging
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - Dual-energy virtual colonoscopy may be able to replace several other exams for colorectal cancer patients -- all while streamlining staging, surgical planning, and the search for metastases, according to research presented last week at the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) meeting.
June 20, 2011
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Carestream nets Polish hospital contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health has been awarded a contract from the department of image diagnosis and intervention radiology at the Regional Specialist Hospital in Radom, Poland.
June 15, 2011
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