1. Toshiba’s cardiovascular X-ray Receives Top Ranking
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

... Inc.’s Service organization strives to deliver top-tier service and customer satisfaction. The result of this dedication was once again confirmed by IMV, Ltd., which provides independent analysis of service ...

2. Cardiovascular Outcomes With Ezetimibe/Simvastatin Combination
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

Cardiovascular Outcomes for Patients Treated With Ezetimibe/Simvastatin Combination Compared With Simvastatin or Atorvastatin Alone, a study presented at AHA. A retrospective study of data on high-risk ...

3. ASTRO Hosts Third IHE-RO Connectathon
(Radiology Conferences/ASTRO 2009)

... Connectathon. Accuray, BrainLAB, Elekta, GE Healthcare, Nucletron, Philips, Tomotherapy, Siemens, Varian and MIMVista attended to test the interoperability of their equipment against two new profiles: ...

4. Toshiba Launches InTouch Flex Service Agreement
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

... never exceeds the original point of purchase pricing.” Toshiba’s Service Business Unit has been recognized for its approach through various industry recognitions. In IMV’s 2008 ServiceTrak Imaging on ...

5. As CT Radiation Accumulates, Cancer Risk May Rise
(Modalities/Radiology )

... were done in the United States in 2007, up from 62 million the year before, according to a report from the Medical Information Division of IMV Ltd., a marketing research firm. Generally, people should ...

6. CT Scans: Too Much of a Good Thing Can Be Risky
(Communities/CT)

...  CT is an excellent diagnostic tool of tremendous clinical value in many situations CT has proven to be a valuable clinical tool, and its use has grown rapidly. According to a 2008 IMV Medical Information ...

7. Latest IMV Market Report on U.S. Mammography Centers
(Modalities/Mammography)

IMV Medical Information Division just released its 2005 study of the mammography market, which monitors trends in the products and services used by mammography centers. Mammography centers have emerged ...

8. Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Covidien for its CT Contrast Delivery System with RFID
(Company News/Covidien)

... imaging agents to the patient is critical in radiology to help enhance the accuracy and efficiency of results obtained through the imaging process. The IMV Medical Information Division estimates that since ...

9. Toshiba Service Earns More Top Rankings than any other Vendor in Imv's Servicetrak Imaging's CT User Survey
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

... firm – IMV, Ltd., which provides independent analysis of service trends in the imaging industry. In IMV's 2008 ServiceTrak Imaging on CT system service, Toshiba received more top rankings than any other ...

10. U.S. Cardiology Practices Expand Adoption of 64-slice CT Equipment, Maintain Use of SPECT and Echo
(Communities/CT)

IMV Medical Information released  the adoption of 64-slice CT equipment by cardiology practices According to a new market research report released this month by market research firm IMV Medical ...

11. GE Healthcare Earns Second Straight Top Overall Ranking For Cardiovascular X-Ray System Services
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

For the second straight year, GE Healthcare has earned top honors for Overall OEM Service, Cardiovascular X-ray systems in the 2008 IMV ServiceTrak Imaging X-Ray Cardiovascular Systems report. IMV ...

12. CoActiv EXAM-PACS backs Single-Solution Functionalities at RSNA 2008
(Company News/CoActiv Medical )

... at RSNA 2008 will be EXAM-PACS support for importing, viewing and archiving MIMVista Radiology/Nuclear Medicine files for such fusion imaging files as PET/CT. Recognizing the importance of communications ...

13. IMV nuclear medicine report shows there was a 12 per cent downturn in patient visits from 2005 to 2006
(Communities/Nuclear Molecular)

... during 15.2 million patient visits in the United States in 2006, in 7,320 hospital and non-hospital sites, according to a report just released by IMV Medical Information Division. This represents a 12 ...

14. GE Healthcare continues leadership position for MR and CT service
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

GE Healthcare has announced that it's again been rated first in 'Overall Service Performance' among vendors for CT and MR service, according to IMV ServiceTrak, an independent third-party research firm. ...

15. Cardiology PACS and CVIS industry building momentum to achieve systems integration
(Communities/PACS)

...  According to a newly released study by IMV Medical Information Division, hospitals have embarked on the road to integrating cardiology images with non-image data in cardiology PACS and CVIS systems, ...

16. GE Healthcare named best in PET system service
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

GE Healthcare has announced that it was once again rated first in Overall Service Performance among vendors for PET and PET/CT service, according to third-party research firm IMV ServiceTrak. This ...

17. Statins don't appear to be linked with breast cancer risk
(Communities/Breast Mammary Gland)

... most commonly used statins included lovastatin (2.8 per cent) and simvastatin (2.4 per cent). This was followed by pravastatin (1.6 per cent) and fluvastatin (1.0 per cent). Cases had a slightly greater ...

18. Statins exert class effect in heart failure
(Imported/Imported)

... 15,368 such patients 65 years of age or older who were prescribed a statin at discharge from the hospital and who filled the prescription. They found that atorvastatin, pravastatin, lovastatin, and simvastatin ...

19. Addition of ezetimibe does not enhance antiatherogenic effect of simvastatin
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

The addition of the cholesterol-absorption inhibitor ezetimibe to simvastatin does not enhance the statin's effect on carotid artery intima-media wall thickness, investigators with the ENHANCE trial announced. ...

20. MRI procedure growth slowing to three per cent per year
(Communities/MRI)

According toIMV’s recent census of MRI sites in the US, an estimated 27.5 million MRI procedures were performed in 2007. This represents a 14 per cent increase from 24.2 million in 2003, for an average ...