Texas Breast Specialists Practice Awarded The ACR’s Breast Imaging Centre of Excellence.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has awarded Texas Breast Specialists, a related practice of Texas Oncology-Amarillo Cancer Center, the status of a “Breast Imaging Center of Excellence.”
Texas Specialists is considered to have the most developed breast screening equipment and the best diagnostic services in Amarillo. The practice provides all the screening techniques that can detect breast cancer in an earlier stage when the treatment is more effective, among these techniques, the digital screening and diagnostic mammography, breast-specific gamma imaging, breast ultrasound, stereotactic and ultrasound-guided needle and vacuum probe breast biopsies, ductography, and second opinion consultations.

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iSoft Signs An Agreement With CliniWorks For Worldwide Distribution Of AccelFind.

iSoft, a leading Australian company providing healthcare IT solutions, announced that it has signed a new agreement with CliniWorks, a US-based healthcare IT marketing company, in order to distribute iSoft’s AccelFind software to hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout the world.
AccelFind allows its users to extract medical knowledge from any form or type of data. The knowledge can be obtained from sources such as free text notes, discharge summaries or other forms of data such as those available in electronic medical records (EMR). The recently-signed agreement will include iSoft offering its AccelFind among its Life Sciences solution, and it will provided under the ‘Powered by CliniWorks’ banner.

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Philips Cooperates With German Partners To Improve MPI Technology.

Royal Philips Electronics, a major company providing medical imaging systems, has recently announced the beginning of a new German public-private partnership, which aims to improve the developments currently taking place in whole-body Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) systems, along with the preclinical hybrid systems that use a combination of MPI and the traditional MRI scans.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research committed to offer a fund of EUR 10.6 million to the consortium partners, and the total budget will be EUR 20.3 million. Philips aims to strengthen its position as a leading provider of the latest medical imaging systems. Therefore, the company is contributing the researches carried out to develop MPI; the imaging technique was designed by scientists at Philips.
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