1. Kestral Computing

...  Suite 8a, Level 1 17 Burgundy Street, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 3084 Kevin Moynihan, Bob Hall Private ...

2. Block Imaging International Announces Joint Venture
(Company News/Block Imaging International, Inc. )

... the USA, one office in Europe and one office in Japan with its Nihon Block Imaging KK subsidiary headquartered in Tokyo. The partnership between these two significant organizations will efficiently satisfy ...

3. Naviscan's PEM Reduces Unnecessary Breast Biopsies
(Company News/Naviscan, Inc.)

New data from an NIH-sponsored, multi-site study of hundreds of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer shows that Naviscan 's Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) may reduce unnecessary breast biopsies. ...

4. Patent for BIO 300 Radiation Countermeasure-Drug
(Modalities/Radiology )

... (USU), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Humanetics obtained a worldwide exclusive license from The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., acting on ...

5. Obama's CT Colonography Leave Consumers Confused
(Communities/CT)

Recent reports of President Obama's CT colonography or or virtual colonoscopy, as a screening test for colorectal cancer and coverage by the Associated Press of an NIH State-of-the-Science conference heralding ...

6. Groundbreaking Study Using Ultrasound for Treatment
(Communities/Ultrasound)

... as determined by a decrease in the National Institutes of Health Stroke Score (NIHSS) were demonstrated at 30 days in 7/9 patients. The rate of thrombolysis was compared between 8 patients who completed ...

7. Documenting EHR Radiation: NIH Unveils New Policy
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

NIH announced a new policy that would require its physicians to use electronic health records to document the amount of radiation that patients receive when they undergo CT scans or other medical imaging ...

8. Epigenetics Helps Determine Low-radiation from CT
(Communities/CT)

... anything," said Farooki. "In 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that $190 million had been earmarked for epigenetics research over the next five years," she said. In announcing the ...

9. CT Makers Tracks Radiation Dose: NIH
(Communities/CT)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to require that all makers of CT and other radiation-producing scanners used at NIH clinics have software that tracks a patient's radiation dose and logs it ...

10. GE MRI Systems to Underdeveloped Regions
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

GE researchers receive nearly $3.3 million NIH award to develop smaller, cryogen-free magnet that reduces system costs, make siting easier in underserved areas. Working to expand access of state-of-the-art ...

11. Doppler Ultrasound Reduces Infant Deaths
(Communities/Ultrasound)

... researchers say the studies included were of questionable quality. Source: NIHR Discuss more about Ultrasound in the Ultrasound user group.  ...

12. Canon U.S.A. Announces New Executive Appointments
(Company News/Canon USA)

... imaging, announced several senior executive appointments and promotions to start the new year. They include: Canon U.S.A. Kunihiko Tedo to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Finance and Accounting ...

13. Bone Metastases: Radiofrequency Ablation Effective
(Modalities/Radiology )

... Institutes of Health (NIH), demonstrated that RFA, often used to treat liver, kidney and lung cancer tumors, is also a safe and effective pain management tool for patients with bone metastases. "It is ...

14. MMR-Unis Completes Joint Venture Agreement
(Company News/MyMedicalRecords, Inc.)

... Inc., made the announcement. The Joint Venture, working with Nihilent, MMR's technology partner in India, will integrate the MyMedicalRecords PHR and MMRPro system into an EMR health IT platform to be ...

15. Baylor Adds Naviscan PEM Technology
(Company News/Naviscan, Inc.)

... call "specificity". A recent multi-center NIH-sponsored study comparing PEM and MRI highlighted that PEM had improved specificity relative to MRI at comparable sensitivity, what researchers use to describe ...

16. SRI Gets Grants to Develop Better CT
(Communities/CT)

... has received two grants totaling $946,089 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop a stationary X-ray system prototype using a new source tube ...

17. Extricom Supports EMR and Healthcare Applications
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

... quality healthcare to the residents of Palo Pinto County. It will also support a variety of other applications, including Kronos, PACS, Nihon Koden Telemetry Monitoring, and a VoIP-based Nurse Call system. ...

18. CT Images Assists Cardiac Research
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... scanner, manufactured by Siemens Healthcare, was funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and will enable experts at the Barts and The London Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit to ...

19. GMI Wins Industry Innovation Award on a Combined SPECT/MRI
(Communities/MRI)

... were funded by the NIH's Biomedical Imaging Institute (NIBIB) in the USA, and others by the Research Council of Norway. The research team includes experts from several key institutions in the United States, ...

20. MMR Information Systems to Enter Into Definitive Agreement With UNIS
(Company News/MyMedicalRecords, Inc.)

... currently have a method of electronically acquiring, storing or transporting individual health records. The meetings brought senior management and technology executives from MMR, UNIS and Nihilent, MMR's ...