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The Sonosite LX is FUJIFILM Sonosite’s latest, premium point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) system.

GE HealthCare has entered into an agreement to acquire IMACTIS, an innovator in the rapidly growing field of computed tomography (CT) interventional guidance across an array of care areas.

The Joint Commission announced it is elevating Leadership (LD) Standard LD.04.03.08 – which addresses health care disparities as a quality and safety priority – to a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) for all critical access hospitals and hospitals, as well as some ambulatory care organizations and behavioral health care and human services organizations that provide certain services, effective July 1, 2023.

Madison Hospital Radiologic Technologist Rachel Ammons, ARRT, is this month’s Rising Star. The Alabama native grew up in Springville before attending college at Southern Union State Community College in the small town of Wadley.

In 2007, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) debuted its performance optimization framework for health care organizations, the Triple Aim. It is anchored in the acknowledgment that health care simultaneously faces spiraling costs, novel challenges, and questions of accessibility to broad segments of America. IHI proposed a framework encapsulating these concerns within a trio of responses, or aims: enhancing patient experience, improving population health and reducing costs.