Programmed to under-perform? This is how some healthcare managers may feel when they go home after a typical day at work, according to a recent white paper 'What Does Being in Over Your Head Look Like'. In reality, the average healthcare organisation creates leadership alignment (the right people in the right roles) approximately 55 percent of the...
READ MOREIMAGING Management spoke to David Fisher, Executive Director of the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) and Vice-President of the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association (NEMA) about recent momentum in the drive to address potential health hazards caused by radiation exposure through medical imaging and related procedures. Also concerned...
READ MOREInterviewee Prof. Oliver Speck Physicist Service for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Institute for Experimental Physics Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Magdeburg, Germany President European Society for Magentic Resonance in Medicine & Biology (ESMRMB) How did you choose experimental physics and what do you enjoy about it? I...
READ MOREPhilips Electronics has announced the world's first Mobile 3.0T MRI system with MultiTransmit - the Achieva 3.0T TX Mobile MRI. The mobile system brings advanced MRI diagnostic capabilities to patients who previously may not have had access otherwise. Additionally, the Achieva 3.0T TX Mobile MRI will be the first 3.0T MRI system in Europe with MultiTransmit....
READ MORECEO Jeff Immelt recently announced that the location of the next Global Research Centre (GRC) will be in Brazil, one of four focus countries in GE's globalisation process, which also includes Russia, India and China. Brazil and South America are of critical importance to GE Healthcare's future. For the last several years GE Healthcare has envisioned...
READ MOREThe MR, Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Center in Bremen Mitte, Germany started using the advanced visualization software syngo.via in 2009 and the new PACS syngo.plaza in 2010. For users, the major benefits of the integrated Siemens solution are the time savings and the improved quality. The limiting resource for a radiology practice is the radiologist...
READ MOREAs the latest addition to the HI VISIoN series of ultrasound systems the HI VISIoN Ascendus benefits from modalities such as Hitachi Realtime Tissue Elastography (HI-RTE) for imaging tissue stiffness, and dynamic Contrast Harmonic Imaging (dCHI) technology, that enhances visualisation of tissue microvasculature after the injection of an ultrasound...
READ MOREPhilips announced the opening of the world's first Hybrid oR with FlexMove – a ceilingmounted option for the Allura xper x-ray system, designed to optimise workflow in Hybrid ors – at the University Hospital Zurich (Universitäts Spital Zürich, USZ), Switzerland. A Hybrid oR is the integration of a surgical operating room with an advanced x-ray imaging...
READ MOREWinthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, N.y., signed a seven-year, multi-million-dollar order for cloud-based RIS/PACS and vendor-neutral archiving services from Carestream Health. Carestream's e-health services deliver full RIS/PACS functionality for image review, storage and distribution throughout the enterprise including delivering advanced reading...
READ MOREHologic announced its Selenia Dimensions digital mammography system in two dimensional (2D) mode has been awarded "EUREF Type Test" certification by the European Reference organisation (EUREF) Council for Quality Assured Breast Screening and Diagnostic Services. only three products have received EUREF approval to date, of which two are Hologic systems...
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