1. Discovery

Discovery Discovery is the single platform to support a broad spectrum of patients over a lifetime of care. Discovery allows to assess not only vertebral fractures, but also provides visualization of abdominal ...

2. Portable Ultrasound Aid Special Forces Medics
(Communities/Ultrasound)

... to look into the body for a variety of medical purposes, such as identifying blood in the abdomen, finding fractures, skin infections and collapsed lungs, already have widespread use in Army medicine but ...

3. Campbellford Hospital Unveils New CT Scanner
(Communities/CT)

... somewhere. You want to be able to monitor them." CT scans are also employed in the diagnosis of stroke, traumas such as neck or back injuries, abdominal pain, appendicitis and fractures. The machine begins ...

4. GE Centricity Enterprise Receives CCHIT
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... safety needs of healthcare consumers and payers. One script, for example, recreates a scenario of a middle-aged man admitted through the emergency department after sustaining fractures in an automobile ...

5. Power Mobility Benefit for Medicare Beneficiaries
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... than 421,000 were hospitalized.     * Hip fractures from falls cause about 300,000 hospitalizations per year, costing an average of $81,000 per patient.     * In 2001, more ...

6. CompuMed Digital OsteoGram Featured at RSNA 2009
(Company News/CompuMed, Inc.)

... percent of women 67 years of age or older hospitalized for hip fractures currently receive either a bone density test or a prescription for an anti-osteoporosis medication in the six months after hip fracture. ...

7. VIVA 2009 Late-Breaking Trials
(Radiology Conferences/VIVA 2009)

... from major adverse cardiovascular events and no fractures. In the pooled data set, there was a 92.3% patency rate with an 86.6-mm average lesion length. Among the secondary endpoints, average treadmill, ...

8. EHRs prevents 25 percent of hip fractures
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

If healthcare organizations nationwide did a better job managing patients at risk for osteoporosis, they could cut the rate of hip fractures in the U.S. by 25 percent, and the best way to do so is to collect ...

9. Health care reform- Direct Access to Speciality Care
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... company officials, however, that patients with fractures, sports injuries or other musculoskeletal ailments should have direct access to high-quality orthopaedic care. Orthopaedic surgeons are the only ...

10. New Study Shows the Importance of Visual Accuracy of Radiologists
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... and Berbaum are also surveying radiologists on fatigue in the workplace. To measure diagnostic accuracy, subjects are reading a set of 60 bone cases—with and without fractures—once early in the day and ...

11. Pulmonary CT Angiography Can Detect Pathology Beyond Pulmonary Arteries In Children
(Communities/CT)

... the study. “However, a variety of other alternative diagnoses, including congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, rib fractures, and more, were identified throughout the thorax ” he said. “One ...

12. Philips expands leadership in nuclear medicine and radiation oncology
(Company News/Philips Healthcare)

... detect even small hairline fractures with high spatial resolution," said Jay Mazelsky, senior vice president, Nuclear Medicine, for Philips Healthcare. "With the growing trend of orthopedic needs in the ...

13. Access to Osteoporosis Testing for Americans in Jeopardy
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... fractures, which are costly and can be devastating to the overall health of older patients," said Representative Shelley Berkley. "As someone who has been diagnosed with osteoporosis, I want all Americans ...

14. Metastatic Bone Disease Patients Can Walk in Lazarus' Footsteps
(Organizations/Society of Interventional Radiology)

... imaging. The technique is similar to vertebroplasty, an interventional radiology treatment that has been used extensively in the spine to treat the pain of compression fractures. In the study, the average ...

15. TFAST Beneficial In Human Trauma Care As Well
(Communities/Pulmonary Thoracic)

... injuries, including rib fractures, intercostal muscle tears, diaphragmatic hernia, hemothorax, and hemopericardium advantageously upon patient presentation on the exam table during triage. The group of ...

16. AOFAS Symposium Addresses Difficult to Treat Ankle Sprains
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... of acute ankle sprains heal without surgery, approximately 15-20% of patients have persistent ankle symptoms. Failure of the ankle to heal may be due to cartilage injuries, subtle ankle fractures, tendon ...

17. Novel Treatment Relieves Metastatic Bone Pain
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... treatment that has been used extensively to treat pain caused by compression fractures in the spine. "These concepts have been extrapolated to other processes in the body," he said, "and we found that ...

18. Metastatic Bone Disease Patients Can Walk in Lazarus' Footsteps
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... CT or digital fluoroscopy imaging. The technique is similar to vertebroplasty, an interventional radiology treatment that has been used extensively in the spine to treat the pain of compression fractures. ...

19. PACS Part IV – Some Concepts and Review
(Communities/PACS)

... on subtle bone fractures. J Digit Imaging 1997; 10:169-173. van Ooijen PM, Roosjen R, de Blecourt MJ, van Dam R, Broekema A, Oudkerk M: Evaluation of the use of CD-ROM upload into the PACS or institutional ...

20. GE Healthcare Launches New Software For Diagnosing Osteoporosis At Arab Health 2009
(Radiology Conferences/Arab Health Congress 2009)

... fractures, and 30 to 50 per cent of women, and 15 to 30 per cent of men will suffer an osteoporosis related fracture in their lifetime. IOF also presents evidence that many women who sustain a fragility ...