Agfa Implements IMPAX 6 In Four Alliance Medical Hospitals

Agfa Healthcare announced that it has finished implementing its IMPAX 6 Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), and its Radiology Information Systems (RIS) throughout four locations in Ireland. Agfa Healthcare installed its solutions in four locations among Alliance Medical's hospitals, an independent organization providing diagnostic imaging services. Alliance Medical has 11 locations providing services throughout Ireland.

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Siemens Provides NICoE With Its Biograph mCT Imaging System

Siemens Healthcare announced that it has provided its Biograph mCT, a high performing PET-CT system, to the recently opened National Intrepid Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (NICoE). The center was recently opened to provide medical services to US soldiers suffering from severe Traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

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Cell>Point Completes Second Phase Of Its Lung Cancer Imaging Trial

Cell>Point, a company providing diagnostic imaging solutions, announced that it has completed the second phase of its three part clinical trial of 99mTc-EC-G. The latter promises to be used as a SPECT/CT imaging agent for diagnosing non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Cell>Point is producing 99mTc-EC-G as a diagnostic imaging agent for cancer and cardiovascular conditions.

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Sectra Provides Image Sharing Solution In Norway

Sectra, a major company providing healthcare IT solutions, announced that its branch in Europe is going to provide a centralized radiology image sharing solution in a public chain of hospitals in Norway. The provided solution will help in offering healthcare services in one of the most populated sections of the healthcare system in Norway.

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CMMC Installed Vantage Titan From Toshiba

Central Mississippi Medical Center (CMMC), Jackson, Miss., announced that it has recently installed a new Vantage Titan MR system from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. The recent installation is going to solve bariatric imaging challenges in the center, as imaging bariatric conditions is becoming more difficult when using conventional diagnostic imaging systems.

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New Radiotherapy Technique Developed In New Zealand

One of the private radiotherapy clinics in Auckland, New Zealand, announced that it has developed a new radiotherapy technique to control tumors while reducing harmful complication resulted from radiation exposure.The radiotherapy clinic, Auckland Radiation Oncology, said that it is the first clinic in New Zealand or Australia to use the new technique. Public cancer treatment facilities are going to use the new technique within the next few months.

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Infoway Add Diagnostic Imaging To its Provided Certifications

Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) announced that diagnostic imaging and drug information systems have been added to its pre-implementation Certification Services. In addition, companies providing healthcare IT solutions are now able to have certifications for seven classes of technology.

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NHS Highland Revises X-ray Scans For Errors

The X-ray scans of nearly 800 patients are currently under revision following finding mistakes in two cases. NHS Highland ordered the revision after highlighting problems in two chest X-ray scans carried out at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, Scotland. Professor Chris Isles, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, expressed concerns about the qualifications of the staff sent to work in hospitals. He added that the information about their experience is not always accurate. Moreover, the British Medical Association warned that the current revision of the clinical skills of foreign doctors, when they come to work in NHS facilities, is not enough.

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Bowel Cancer Screening Can Save 1000 Patients Annually

Bowel cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. The disease is accounted for a high number of mortalities every year. However, bowel cancer shows high cure rate when it is detected early. Realizing this, a number of experts from the University of Sydney said that nearly 1000 mortality cases, resulted from bowel cancer, could be prevented annually if a bowel cancer screening program was carried out by the government in Australia. These facts were highlighted in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).

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A New Software To Reduce CT Radiation Exposure To Children

Computed Tomography (CT) has been one of the most important diagnostic imaging techniques. It generates 3D images of body organs allowing doctors to be able to determine diseased conditions in body in a much easier way. CT has helped in diagnosing a wide range of conditions starting from broken bones until detecting vascular blockage and tumors. However, CT scan delivers much radiation doses than conventional X-ray in order to produce those highly detailed images. Concerns have been raised recently regarding the safety of the technique as high radiation doses can result in serious complication. Experts are currently discussing designing measures to minimize the delivered radiation doses, especially to children, while not affecting the quality of the generated images.

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