ImagingEconomics | GE Healthcare recently received FDA clearance for the Optima XR220amx, Optima XR200amx, and Brivo XR285amx, a new platform of user-friendly, mobile x-ray systems offering improvements from its predecessors. These systems are designed to provide health care professionals with fast, low-dose, high-quality images that...
AuntMinnie | New techniques for coronary CT angiography (CTA) -- particularly high-pitch scanning -- are slashing radiation dose levels to provide safer scans for children without the need for sedation, according to a study presented at last week's Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) meeting in...
DiagnosticImaging | Reliability is a fundamental part of quality. Consumers rely on their favored brands, and go back again and again to use them. Why? Because they know exactly what they will get, how to use them and where to find all the working parts,...
imagingBiz | In recent years, interventional radiologists have had an easier time with the long-standing challenge of impressing their diagnostic colleagues with the intangible worth of a clinical interventional-radiology service. A radiology practice with clinical feet on the street has at least a fighting chance...
What the New CMS Rule Means for Teleradiology CredentialingOn May 2, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that allows hospitals and critical access hospitals using teleradiology services the ability to rely on the credentialing and privileging information of...