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Health Technology: The Top Ten Hazards
The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit foundation devoted to evidence-based medicine, has just released its second annual listing of the ten biggest dangers posed by various healthcare technologies -- and, perhaps more important, how to avoid them. This is a huge service, given that medical errors remain one of the largest...
Tags: Hazard, Patient, Device, Health Care, Training, ECRI Institute, CT Scan, MRI, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-12-30

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Soc: New date set for Rooney foot scan
AAP Sports News Australia 05-29-2006 Soc: New date set for Rooney foot scan LONDON, May 29, AFP - England are to keep their options open on Wayne Rooney's injured foot bringing forward to June 7, the next assessment scan on...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Manchester United Ltd.
Research articles 2006-05-29
St. Mark's gets speedy CT scan technology
St. Mark's Hospital has acquired a LightSpeed VCT computed tomography CT imaging system that provides highly detailed images of the human body in a fraction of the time typically required. The hospital's director of imaging, Craig Pendleton, said the hospital is the first medical facility in the state...
Tags: GE Healthcare
Research articles 2006-02-06
Audit of Head Injury Management in Accident and Emergency at Two Hospitals: Implications for NICE CT Guidelines
This white paper study audits the process of the management of patients with head injury presenting at Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and examines the impact upon resources of introducing NICE guidelines for eligibility of a CT scan. The paper also reveals that the majority of patients who present with...
Tags: Audit, Hospital, BioMed Central, Accident, Policies And Procedures, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance
White papers 2004-05-03
Tumor Detection in the Bladder Wall With a Measurement of Abnormal Thickness in CT Scans
Virtual cystoscopy is a developing technique for bladder cancer screening. In a conventional cystoscopy, an optical probe is inserted into the bladder and an expert reviews the appearance of the bladder wall. Physical limitations of the probe place restrictions on the examination of the bladder wall. In virtual cystoscopy, a...
Tags: Wall, Construction
White papers 2003-03-01
GE Healthcare Installs First Volume CT System and Honeywell's Spectra Shield(R) Composite to Armor 164 U.S. Marine Sea Knight Helicopters.
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 November 2005-US Financial Network: GE Healthcare Installs First Volume CT System and Honeywell's Spectra ShieldR Composite to Armor 164 U.S. Marine Sea Knight HelicoptersC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17112005 City of Industry, CA - Conglomerate industry news provided by ...
Tags: GE Healthcare, Honeywell International Inc., Hydroflo Inc.
Research articles 2005-11-17
Toshiba's new breakthrough technology provides live visualization of CT scanning
CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 27, 1995--At the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., TAMS Monday introduced works-in-progress Aspire Continuous Imaging CI, a major technology breakthrough which allows the radiologist to see for the firs time the CT scan as it occurs.
Tags: Toshiba Corp.
Research articles 1995-11-27
Computed Tomography Is Multi-Slice
No other area of medical imaging has witnessed an explosion of performance comparable to the one which has occurred in Computed Tomography CT. Just several years ago almost all CT systems had only a single detector row. Scan times of 30 seconds were state of the art for a head...
Tags: Siemens AG, Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2004-12-07
Symbia TruePoint SPECT?CT: Sentinel Node Localization
The patient is a 51 year old female, 281 lbs. (128 kgs.), with a history of breast cancer. To assist in preparation for her left breast mastectomy with axillary lymph node localization, a SPECT?CT Lymphoscintigraphy scan was performed. This exam was completed using the Symbia TruePoint SPECT?CT scanner. Findings included...
Tags: Technique, Siemens AG, Node, Productivity, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals
Case studies 2005-11-03
Studies Presented at 20th Annual Congress of European Society of Cardiology Continue to Validate Imatron's Ultrafast CT Coronary Artery Scan as the Most Powerful Predictor of a Heart Attack by a Ratio of Ten to One
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 31, 1998-- Imatron Inc. (Nasdaq:IMAT) said today that new studies presented at the 20th Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology and a satellite scientific Symposium on Electron Beam Tomography in the Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Disease, held in Vienna August 22 to 26,...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 1998-08-31
It's a Done Deal: Scan-Optics Acquires Photomatrix Imaging.(Brief Article)
Late in June, Scan-Optics completed its previously-announced acquisition of Photomatrix's scanner and maintenance divisions (see MN May, p. 7). The deal covers all current and future assets, valued at $3.9 million, and assumption of current and future liabilities of $1.9 million. The cash purchase price was...
Tags: Scan-Optics LLC
Research articles 1999-07-01
Toshiba Upgrades CT Technology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, with Aquilion 64 CFX
TUSTIN, Calif. -- World's Most Advanced 64-Slice CT Scanner Improves Cardiac CT Imaging with the Industry's Best Isotropic Slice Resolution and Faster Scan Time
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Toshiba Corp.
Research articles 2005-03-07
Scan-Optics, Inc., Selected to Present at Symposium on Electronic Imaging
MANCHESTER, CT--BUSINESS WIRE--January 27, 1999--Scan-Optics, Inc. (Nasdaq National Market: SOCR), a leader in high performance document imaging systems, information management solutions and associated hardware and software services, today announced that a paper written by one of its employees will be presented at the prestigious Symposium on Electronic Imaging this week...
Research articles 1999-01-27
Scan-Optics, Inc. Announces $2 Million Manufacturing Order from RAPOR, Inc
MANCHESTER, CT--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 2, 1998--Scan-Optics, Inc. (Nasdaq National Market: SOCR), a leader in high performance document imaging systems, information management solutions and associated hardware and software services, today announced that it has received an order to manufacture 100 RAPOR Fast Trac security systems to be shipped over the next twelve...
Tags: Manufacturing
Research articles 1998-10-02
Scan-Optics, Inc. Awarded Patent for Context-Edit
MANCHESTER, CT--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 13, 1999--Scan-Optics, Inc. (NASDAQ National Market: SOCR), a leader in high volume document imaging systems, today announced that it has been assigned a patent from the U.S. Patent Office for its Context-Edit product. Context-Edit, developed for use with the Series 9000 neural recognition engine, is a process...
Tags: optical character recognition
Research articles 1999-01-13
Computer scan on mummy reveals Egyptian boy king Tut not murdered
CAIRO AFP — A computerised X-ray on the 3,300-year-old mummy of Egypt's most famous pharaoh, Tutankhamun, has shown the boy king was not murdered but it could not solve the mystery surrounding his death. The result of the CT computed tomography scan sheds new light on the mysterious life...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, computer, Egypt, scientist
Research articles 2005-03-08
Could a scan replace a scope to screen for colon cancer? A Chicago hospital now offers virtual colonoscopies using a quick and painless CT scan.(Health & Fitness)
Byline: Lorilyn Rackl Daily Herald Health Writer Few medical tests spark as much fear and loathing as colorectal cancer screening. And few tests are as important. That's because cancer of the rectum or colon ranks as the second leading cause of cancer-related...
Tags: hospital, Mayo Clinic, patient
Research articles 2001-03-05
New York City hospital becomes the first to install molecular imaging technology. (Hospital Purchasing).
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, 437 beds, in November 2001 became the first U.S. hospital to install a Biograph[TM] molecular imaging system from Siemens Nuclear Medicine Group, Hoffman Estates, Ill. The device takes anatomical images from a computed tomography CT scan and...
Tags: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Inc.
Research articles 2002-01-01
NHL Hockey: Flyers' LeClair sidelined for up to six weeks.
Nov 29, 2002 The Sports Network via COMTEX Philadelphia, PA Sports Network - Philadelphia Flyers left wing John LeClair is expected to miss up to six weeks with a dislocated right shoulder and a cracked shoulder cap, according to a published report. ...
Tags: The Sports Network
Research articles 2002-11-29
Scan-Optics Introduces 100 Page-Per-Minute Addition To Its Series 9000 Family of High Speed Scanners
Business Editors MANCHESTER, CT--BUSINESS WIRE--February 8, 2001 Scan-Optics, Inc. (OTC BB: SOCR), a leader in Information Capture and Customer Service Solutions for Government, Insurance, Order, Proxy, Test Scoring and other paper-intensive businesses, today announced the latest addition to its Series 9000 Imaging and OCR Scanner product line -...
Tags: Scan-Optics LLC
Research articles 2001-02-08
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