Imaging Informatics: Page 381

U.K. hospital deploys homegrown IT system
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has implemented an internally developed IT system at its Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS) for referring hospitals to share medical data on emergency patients more quickly and securely.
June 1, 2009
Sybermedica adds U.K. clients
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
U.K. healthcare software developer Sybermedica has connected six of Spire Healthcare's imaging centers to its PACSMail network.
June 1, 2009
OR Technology wins South African contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
German image processing and PACS provider OR Technology has signed a contract with a hospital in South Africa, the company said.
May 27, 2009
MRA planning halves radiation, contrast dose during UAE
By Kate Madden Yee
German researchers have found that performing an MR angiography (MRA) scan for planning prior to uterine artery embolization (UAE) can cut both radiation and contrast dose in half, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology.
May 27, 2009
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Pie software gets FDA nod
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Imaging firm Pie Medical Imaging has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its CAAS MR Flow software.
May 26, 2009
Visbion names Medray reseller for Ireland
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
PACS vendor Visbion has named Medray Imaging Systems as a reseller for the company's products in the healthcare and veterinary markets in Ireland.
May 25, 2009
Season may not alter cancer survival in short term
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 20 - Some studies have found that patients with certain cancers seem to survive longer when they're diagnosed during summer and autumn months, but it now appears that this may be largely due to higher death rates in general during winter months, report U.K. researchers from King's College London.
May 19, 2009
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Elekta, Nucletron ink Mosaiq deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation oncology firm Nucletron will market and license Mosaiq software from Swedish oncology firm Elekta.
May 18, 2009
New echocardiography tool offers rapid, accurate assessment of LV function
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 12 - Norwegian researchers have developed a new semiautomated tool for real-time 3D echocardiography, which offers "rapid and reproducible measurements of left ventricular [LV] volumes and ejection fractions," with good agreement compared with more conventional 3D echocardiography.
May 11, 2009
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Two lung CAD systems unaffected by low dose
By Eric Barnes
A face-off between two lung nodule computer-aided detection (CAD) systems found a big difference in sensitivity for detecting solid pulmonary nodules, but it also revealed the good news that nodule detection was unaffected by low-dose scanning. The number of false positives also differed significantly between the two systems, researchers from Germany reported.
May 10, 2009
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OR Technology nets contracts in Turkey
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
German image processing and PACS provider OR Technology has signed contracts with two hospitals in Turkey.
May 7, 2009
VC not cost-effective in FOBT-positive screening population
By Eric Barnes
Patients with positive screening results on fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs) should probably head straight to optical colonoscopy for their next exam, according to a new study from the Netherlands. Virtual colonoscopy may not be cost-effective in this population because so many FOBT-positive patients would need referral for polypectomy anyway, the researchers said.
May 7, 2009
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