INDUSTRY NEWS
Bon Secours Health System in Ireland chooses Hyland Healthcare to manage clinical content enterprise-wide
Bon Secours Health System, the largest private health care provider in Ireland, has selected OnBase, Hyland's enterprise information platform, to digitize and manage clinical documents. The platform will optimize workflows and performance across the enterprise,...
RSNA 2020 Registration Tops 14,000 Six Weeks Ahead of Meeting
With strong advance registration numbers, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 106th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (RSNA 2020) is shaping up to be a success. Six weeks ahead of the meeting, 14,125 people from countries around the world are already...
Varian Stockholders Approve Combination with Siemens Healthineers
Varian has announced that its stockholders have voted to approve the previously announced pending combination with Siemens Healthineers AG at a special meeting. Varian stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the transaction. "The overwhelming support our...
PRODUCT FOCUS
Report: Mammography Systems Market to Reach $3.5 Billion
Staff report The global mammography systems market is projected to surpass $3.5 billion by 2025, according to a research report by Global Market Insights Inc. Rising awareness about the early detection of breast cancer coupled with the availability of free breast...
Fujifilm ASPIRE Cristalle with Tomosynthesis and Simulated 2D
Fujifilm’s innovative engineering and advanced image processing has created a high sensitivity mammography system for low dose and exceptional image quality. Featuring patented Comfort paddles, Fujifilm’s ASPIRE Cristalle with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT)...
GE Healthcare Serena Bright
Typically lesions identified with contrast-enhanced mammography are sent to MRI for biopsy, but now with Serena Bright, the industry-first contrasted enhanced biopsy-guided solution, breast biopsy procedures can be performed with the same mammography equipment, with...
INDUSTRY NEWS
Bon Secours Health System in Ireland chooses Hyland Healthcare to manage clinical content enterprise-wide
Bon Secours Health System, the largest private health care provider in Ireland, has selected OnBase, Hyland's enterprise information platform, to digitize and manage clinical documents. The platform will optimize workflows and performance across the enterprise,...
RSNA 2020 Registration Tops 14,000 Six Weeks Ahead of Meeting
With strong advance registration numbers, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 106th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (RSNA 2020) is shaping up to be a success. Six weeks ahead of the meeting, 14,125 people from countries around the world are already...
Varian Stockholders Approve Combination with Siemens Healthineers
Varian has announced that its stockholders have voted to approve the previously announced pending combination with Siemens Healthineers AG at a special meeting. Varian stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the transaction. "The overwhelming support our...
See-Mode Technologies Receives FDA Clearance for AI Software
See-Mode Technologies, a MedTech startup based in Singapore and Australia that seeks to empower clinicians to better predict stroke, has announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its debut product, Augmented...
PRODUCT FOCUS
Report: Mammography Systems Market to Reach $3.5 Billion
Staff report The global mammography systems market is projected to surpass $3.5 billion by 2025, according to a research report by Global Market Insights Inc. Rising awareness about the early detection of breast cancer coupled with the availability of free breast...
Fujifilm ASPIRE Cristalle with Tomosynthesis and Simulated 2D
Fujifilm’s innovative engineering and advanced image processing has created a high sensitivity mammography system for low dose and exceptional image quality. Featuring patented Comfort paddles, Fujifilm’s ASPIRE Cristalle with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT)...
GE Healthcare Serena Bright
Typically lesions identified with contrast-enhanced mammography are sent to MRI for biopsy, but now with Serena Bright, the industry-first contrasted enhanced biopsy-guided solution, breast biopsy procedures can be performed with the same mammography equipment, with...
SPOTLIGHT
In Focus: Kara Mayeaux
By John Wallace Banner Imaging Senior Director of Operations Kara Mayeaux, CRA, is not one to shy away from a challenge. Her desire to serve in the diagnostic imaging field is just one example of how she takes on difficult situations and transforms them into...
Rising Star: Lisa Nagel
By Erin Register Lisa Nagel, 36, grew up in the small rural town of Botkins, Ohio, with a population of around 1,154 people. She graduated high school with approximately 52 classmates in 2002 and attended Owens Community College in Perrysburg, Ohio, a suburb of...
RAD IDEA: Employee Engagement
Knowing your team well, can aid any leader in terms of engagement. Research shows the foundation of employee engagement starts with knowing what is expected of you when you come to work, followed by having the tools and resources and moves up the scale to include...
Off the Clock: Amy Peronace, Director of Women’s Imaging at Banner Imaging in Phoenix, Arizona
By Matt Skoufalos “If you need anything, just ask Amy.” In Amy Peronace’s household, the punchline of that joke turns on its understatement. By day, the mother of three directs women’s imaging services at Banner Imaging in Phoenix, Arizona, helping make some of the...
In Focus: Sandy Michalski
By John Wallace When it comes to health care professionals, it is not uncommon for individuals to possess an altruistic personality. They are often selfless and self-sacrificing. It is as if they are constantly the personification of the phrase often heard around...
INSIGHTS
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[Sponsored] Continuum of Care: Banner Imaging
Sponsored by Banner Health By Amy Peronace Everyone knows that going for a yearly mammogram can be stressful. That stress is exacerbated when it is for a diagnostic study. Stress builds from the anticipation of when a symptom is detected, to the day of the...
Changing Our Narrative
By Jef Williams I have discovered a rhythm to our industry over the past nearly 20 years working in healthcare IT and medical imaging. Despite the disruptive nature of innovative modalities, AI, analytics and advanced imaging applications, there remains a staunch ebb...
Giving AI a Home
By Mark Watts As I gazed down on the blueprints for the new medical center the chief medical officer asked me if I wanted the signage to read Radiology or Medical Imaging? I was being given an opportunity to design a new medical center. As I looked over the design, I...
How AI is Making a Lasting Footprint on Breast Imaging
By Samir Parikh With October designated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, now is an especially pertinent time to reflect on the most talked about trend in breast cancer screening – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – and where it’s headed. When you consider the primary...
Lean In – Create the Space for Those You Lead to be Human
By Janel Byrne At this point there’s little doubt that the year 2020 has fundamentally shifted how each person in the United States (let alone across the world) is living their lives. I don’t hear anyone in my network claiming, “Well, we’ve seen this before and this...
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[Sponsored] HTMs Expediting Equipment Service with Expert Third-party Technical Support
Sponsored by Summit Imaging By Larry Nguyen Each year, health care organizations spend millions of dollars on equipment maintenance. Reducing costly outside service technicians’ expenses by streamlining equipment maintenance and repair processes presents an enormous...
Three Things You Should Know About Anger
By Daniel Bobinski Most people have seen anger in the workplace. Since it’s a natural human emotion, we’re bound to see it from time to time. While some people get angry more quickly than others and others never seem to show it at all, there are three things all...
PET/CT or PET and CT?
By Melody Mulaik Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine study that creates cross-sectional tomographic (3D) images of the metabolic activity in the patient’s tissues. The scan is performed after intravenous injection of a radiopharmaceutical. The...
