Imaging IT: Healthcare Organizations Utilize Enterprise Services to Fast-Track Health IT Purchases

New enterprise services help healthcare providers predict operational and information technology (IT) costs and control ongoing costs while deploying enterprise-wide health IT systems.

Ultrasound: Partnership to Offer Advanced Needle Guidance technology

New needle guidance solution helps make central venous catheter procedures “point-and-shoot” simple to improve care quality and reduce healthcare costs.

Nuclear Medicine: The preoperative visualization of SLN with SPECT/CT is technically feasible and facilitates the detection of additional positive SLNs.

Preoperative three-dimensional (3D) visualization of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) used with single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging was associated with a higher rate of identification of positive SLNs and a higher rate of disease-free survival among patients with melanoma, according to new findings.

New opportunities radiology information system

A radiology information system (RIS) enables a web-based solution that streamlines workflow and enables providers to meet meaningful use (MU) criteria.

Siemens will offer new and improved diagnostic Ultrasound Equipment

Siemens Healthcare (Erlangen, Germany) announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Penrith Corporation of Plymouth Meeting (PA, USA), a manufacturer of integrated ultrasound imaging systems. Through this acquisition, Siemens will offer new and improved diagnostic capabilities and expand its ultrasound portfolio. The transaction is expected to close in September 2012.

Radiography: New Data Provide Clues into Why Some Lung Tumors Are Undetected by X-Ray

New research has revealed why some lung tumors are undetected by X-ray and helped to identify the type of individuals who may be at risk of this sort of lung cancer.

Dentistry: In the treatment of dental caries helping coconut oil

Digested coconut oil is able to attack the bacteria that cause tooth decay. It is a natural antibiotic that could be incorporated into commercial dental care products, say scientists presenting their work at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference at the University of Warwick.