Viewing articles in the ‘Diagnostics’ topic.
March 22, 2017
Mortsel, Belgium – A report from KLAS, titled “Enterprise Imaging 2016: Early Leaders in a Growing Market” shows Agfa HealthCare’s VNA and Universal Viewer as only vendor with increased satisfaction from end-users. Moreover, the report notes that Agfa HealthCare is “having good success connecting multiple service lines with their VNA and universal viewer.”
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March 8, 2017
OTTAWA – Queensway Carleton Hospital is the second hospital in Canada to receive new state-of-the-art cardiac ultrasound technology. The anatomically intelligent devices arrived at the end of 2016 and are now fully operable, serving patients in Queensway Carleton Hospital’s Cardiopulmonary department.
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February 1, 2017
OTTAWA – Family physicians and specialists continue to rely on the results of diagnostic imaging exams to make informed decisions for their patients, but Canadian patients are waiting longer than those in other countries for tests.
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February 1, 2017
TORONTO – The Joint Department of Medical Imaging, which manages Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Services for three downtown Toronto hospitals, has not only developed its own peer review software system for radiologists, it has also expanded the system to embrace technologists, as well. Read More
February 1, 2017
CHICAGO – With the rise of enterprise viewers and high-powered networks, many doctors are reading diagnostic images on their own, and bypassing the radiologists. Moreover, machine learning is being applied to radiology, and threatens to automate much of what radiologists now do. Read More
December 16, 2016
OSHAWA, Ont. – Lakeridge Health has acquired three CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems to help staff members capture digital radiography exams for patients in the emergency department and intensive care units, as well as inpatients. Two imaging systems are installed at Lakeridge Health Oshawa and the third is deployed at Lakeridge Health Bowmanville. (Pictured are technologists Christine Charkair and Spencer Whitney.) Read More
December 14, 2016
OSHAWA, Ont. – Lakeridge Health has acquired three CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems to help staff members capture digital radiography exams for patients in the emergency department and intensive care units, as well as inpatients. Two imaging systems are installed at Lakeridge Health Oshawa and the third is deployed at Lakeridge Health Bowmanville.
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November 2, 2016
EDMONTON – The University of Alberta Hospital has installed the city’s first clinical 3T MRI, which is expected to serve 10,000 patients a year. Its arrival marks a major milestone in the University Hospital Foundation’s Brain Centre Campaign, as the first 3T MRI dedicated to outpatient diagnosis and care.
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November 2, 2016
OTTAWA – The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor in Chalk River, Ont., northwest of Ottawa, was scheduled to stop making molybdenum-99 this week, even though the nearly 60-year-old reactor is not slated to shut down altogether until 2018.
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October 19, 2016
VICTORIA, B.C. – Island Health has been informing family doctors that until a backlog of 18,000 ultrasound orders eases, new routine scan requests will not be booked. “That number has been climbing since I started this job four months ago,” said Scott McCarten, Island Health’s director of medical imaging.
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