Diagnostics

VANCOUVER – NZ Technologies is pleased to announce the sale of two TIPSO Touchless Image Navigation systems to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. Using proprietary sensors that monitor the three-dimensional (3D) space around the surgery bed, TIPSO enables physicians to touchlessly and intuitively manipulate patient radiology images while performing the procedure. Read More

LINKOPING, Sweden and SHELTON, Conn. – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra has been named ‘Best in KLAS’ in the US for PACS (Large Hospital/IDN) with a score of 94 out of a possible 100. The distinction was given by the healthcare IT data and insights company KLAS Research. Read More

HANOVER, Ont. – The Hanover and District Hospital held an open house to celebrate the acquisition of a new CT scanner – a Somatom Definition Edge CT, from Siemens. Hospital president Katrina Wilson called it a dream come true and credited Barb and Henry Lansink for making the dream become a reality. Read More

LINDSAY, Ont. – Work currently underway in the Ross Memorial Hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department includes the installation of X-ray/Fluoroscopy technology that will transform care at the hospital. Read More

TORONTO – A small group of family doctors are responsible for ordering nearly 40 percent of at least two out of four low-value screening tests, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Women’s College Hospital (WCH). Read More

CHICAGO – Deep Learning has tremendous potential for radiology, but the roadblock at the moment is a shortage of quality data to build the applications, notes Dr. Charles E. Kahn (pictured), professor and vice chair of radiology, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Kahn is also editor of the new RSNA online journal, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. Read More

KITCHENER, Ont. – Grand River Hospital (GRH) is partnering with KA Imaging to conduct a pilot study on the use of a high-resolution, multi-energy digital X-ray imager for patients with lung nodules. This new technology is faster and less expensive, with the potential to detect lung cancer earlier and with better image quality and lower levels of radiation than a traditional CT scan. Read More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The symptoms can start with something as minor as a trembling hand, stiffness in the morning, the loss of sense of smell, or trouble tying shoes and buttoning shirts. Individually, these changes might be nothing to worry about, but together they could be signs of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Read More