An organization called the American Board of Magnetic Resonance Safety (ABMRS) has been formed with a mission to certify—through formally administered tests—individuals who have been delegated the responsibility of ensuring the safety of clinical and research magnetic resonance environments.

The use of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) as a breast screening modality could account for $550 billion dollars in breast cancer healthcare savings annually, according to a study published Jan. 12 in the Journal of ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research.

When it comes to the federal meaningful use program, keep your eye on the prize—not the incentive dollars, advised Doug Fridsma, MD, former director, office of science and technology in the Office of the National Coordinator. With complexity rising and dollars declining, the greater objective in your deployment of health IT should be preparation for payment reform.

Nearly all mid-size healthcare organizations are using cloud computing or considering it, but almost two-thirds continue to have doubts about security.

Helping connect healthcare experts and increasing the usability of the wealth of medical imaging data – that’s the goal of “teamplay,”the new solution from Siemens Healthcare. This cloud-based network1—which Siemens will display at the 100th Scientific Assembly & Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 30 – Dec. 5th in Chicago—the helps link hospitals and healthcare experts to provide them with the ability to exchange data and pool their knowledge. Within hospitals, “teamplay” makes it possible to evaluate the extensive amount of information generated by imaging devices – e.g. scanner capacity utilization, examination times or radiation doses – and to compare the numbers against in-house and third-party reference values. This means imaging devices can be analyzed in close to real time and their operation optimized based on the results, right down to individual device level. Because “teamplay” runs on tablets, laptops and desktop PCsmembers of the network have flexible access to the information, subject to the appropriate authorization and security measures. 

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today introduced a new lung screening solution designed to offer health care providers a faster and more definitive pathway to lung cancer detection and treatment. Making its debut at the 2014 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting in Chicago this week, this total solution is comprised of products and services that enable health care providers to implement and manage a comprehensive computed tomography (CT) lung screening program which tracks and guides patients across the health continuum.

INFINITT North America, an award-winning developer of image and information management solutions for healthcare, announced today that it will feature the new INFINITT Healthcare Platform (IHP) at RSNA 2014. This centralized archive solution provides open, standards-based storage and manages DICOM and non-DICOM data over their life cycle regardless of where the data originated, and making it easier and more cost-efficient to comply with retention policies and security regulations.

As the first seamless integration between Interventional Radiology (IR) and CT technology, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.’s all-new InfinixTM 4DCT provides clinicians with faster, safer and more accurate interventions. With this innovative combination, healthcare providers can plan, treat and verify in a single clinical setting for better patient care – rather than transferring patients between departments, risking infection and dragging out procedure times.