In a report released earlier this year from Frost and Sullivan, the market research firm pointed to the reality that almost four out of five U.S. hospitals have not implemented an efficient paperless approach to radiation dose monitoring. Even so, dose reduction is but one of several key focuses for CT innovation in the year to come, 24×7 associate editor Elaine Sanchez Wilson explains in this informative article.
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IBM and Siemens Healthineers’ 5-year alliance aims to help hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, and other providers deliver value-based care to patients with complex, chronic, and costly conditions, such as heart disease and cancer. The alliance is the first of its kind for the companies, which have a long-standing global relationship that spans diverse industry sectors.
Read MoreQfix recently announced its new insight overlay and coil holders for Siemens Healthineers’ Magnetom Aero and Skyra, which enable MRI in the same position as treatment. This technology was available for display at both the Qfix booth and the Siemens booth at the 2016 American Society for Radiation Oncology conference, which ran from September 25 to 28 in Boston.
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Imaging equipment has come a long way over the last 12 months, and 2017 promises more of the same. In November’s cover story, seasoned writer Chris Hayhurst explored recent innovations in medical imaging and told HTM professionals what they could expect to see at the 2016 Radiological Society of North America annual conference.
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Earlier this week, Siemens Healthineers unveiled its Somatom Confidence RT Pro dedicated CT scanner at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology in Boston. Designed for radiation oncologists and physicists, the new Somatom Confidence Pro CT system is the first system of its kind to provide electron density images with a “single-energy” scan.
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