Viewing articles in the ‘Diagnostics’ topic.
November 18, 2015
TORONTO – St. Michael’s Hospital is conducting a trial of Carestream’s new Clinical Collaboration Platform, which enables providers to manage and share multi-format clinical data – including photographs and more structured, diagnostic images – to help clinicians make decisions.
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October 21, 2015
EDMONTON – Alberta Health Services has agreed to a one-year extension with Dynalife to continue to provide lab services for the Edmonton region into 2017.
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October 7, 2015
QUEBEC CITY – Shimadzu Medical Systems USA, a subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of advanced diagnostic imaging systems, has announced the installation of the first Sonialvision G4 in Canada. The system is now up and running at Radiologie et Imagerie Médicale de la Capitale (RIMC), a leading DI clinic in Quebec City.
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October 7, 2015
TORONTO – The Joint Department of Medical Imaging (JDMI) officially opened two new procedure rooms at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH), with biplane angiography systems that produce highly detailed views of the brain.
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August 5, 2015
TORONTO – Dr. Sylvia Asa (pictured), long-time head of pathology at the University Health Network, and her husband, Dr. Shereen Ezzat, an endocrinologist and director of a lab at the hospital, have both been demoted from their positions. The hospital concluded in an investigation that the physician-researchers had falsified data in scientific papers, according to court documents. Read More
August 5, 2015
OWEN SOUND, Ont. – Grey Bruce Health Services’ regional hospital, in Owen Sound, is using Carestream’s Vue PACS and Vue Mammo workstations as part of its breast imaging program that includes Carestream’s digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) module, full-field digital mammography, breast ultrasound, breast MRI, stereotactic biopsies and screening mammograms. Read More
August 5, 2015
CORNER BROOK, N.L. – Technical problems sending medical reports to the doctors of patients who received tests at two health authorities in Newfoundland have caused delays in follow-up appointments. Read More
July 22, 2015
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Carestream Health earned the top rating in MD Buyline’s Market Intelligence Briefing (Q2 2015) for both portable and room-based digital X-ray systems for the second time this year.
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July 22, 2015
GUELPH, Ont. – Guelph General Hospital plans to improve its on-site diagnosis of disease with the addition of nuclear medicine imaging this November. The acute-care hospital is the only one of its size in the province to still be without such imaging technology, but once it is up and running it will be among the best in Canada, said Dr. Samir Patel (pictured), chief of diagnostic imaging.
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July 8, 2015
WINNIPEG – Manitoba has announced the introduction of a comprehensive, fully integrated provincial system for digital mammography. Health Minister Sharon Blady (pictured) said the first provincial site to receive a digital mammography system will be the Brandon Regional Health Centre in September 2015, adding that other sites will receive digital mammography between October 2015 and April 2016.
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