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Philips debuts point-of-care ultrasound system

New Products | Friday, August 27 2010
Philips Healthcare has released its new point-of-care (POC) configuration for its portable CX50 ultrasound system, the Philips CX50 POC.
 

ISCT Feature: Annual Workstation Face-Off was ‘impressive’

Web Exclusives | Saturday, May 22 2010
In front of a full conference room at the International Symposium on Multi-Detector Row CT last week, Carestream Health, GE Healthcare, Philips, Siemens, TeraRecon, Vital Images and Ziosoft competed in the eighth annual Workstation Face-Off in San Francisco, yielding “impressive and surprising results,” the event's moderator Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, said in an interview.
 

Philips implements eICU program in Texas health system

Contracts & Installations | Thursday, May 20 2010
San Antonio-based Baptist Health System has implemented an eICU program from Philips VISICU, eGuardian.
 

Lumedx, Philips partner for ultrasound imaging solution

Contracts & Installations | Friday, March 12 2010
Lumedx, cardiovascular information systems developer, has integrated the Philips Healthcare QLAB advanced 2D and 3D ultrasound quantification tools to its CardioPACS imaging solution for better diagnostic accuracy.
 

HIMSS: Philips unites informatics technologies under IntelliSphere

Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA--At HIMSS10 this week, Philips unveiled IntelliSphere, a new identity for its portfolio of healthcare informatics products.
 

HIMSS: Philips collaborates with Microsoft to address healthcare challenges

Conference News | Tuesday, March 02 2010
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and advanced clinical decision support offerings.
 

A Dose of Good News for CCTA: New Techniques Offer Lower Dose, Higher Quality

Cover Story | Tuesday, March 02 2010
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Concern about the cancer risk from low medical level radiation, particularly low-dose radiation delivered from CT scans, has been growing in the healthcare community.
 

Philips, Midwest radiology group sponsors National Rural Health Association

Partnerships & Alliances | Wednesday, February 24 2010
Philips Healthcare and St. Louis-based Quick Study Radiology have partnered to sponsor the National Rural Health Association (NRHA), a nonprofit membership organization that provides guidance on rural health issues.
 

Philips sells its molecular diagnostic technology platform to Biocartis

Wednesday, February 10 2010
Molecular diagnostics company Biocartis has acquired Netherlands Royal Philips Electronics’ technology platform for fully-automated DNA/RNA molecular diagnostic testing designed for applications in a wide range of patient sample testing, including oncology and infectious diseases.
 

Philips inks telemonitoring deal with Tennessee home health provider

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, February 03 2010
Philips has entered into a three-year agreement with Nashville, Tenn.-based home health, companion care and therapy services provider SunCrest Healthcare.
 

Florida cancer center plans treatment using Philips SmartArc

Industry News | Friday, November 13 2009
A patient treated at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. has received the first-ever radiation treatment planned with Philips' Pinnacle3 SmartArc technology.
 

Philips, Celsion advance MR-guided HIFU collaboration

Partnerships & Alliances | Thursday, September 24 2009
Royal Philips Electronics and Celsion said that their joint research program to evaluate Celsion's heat-activated liposomal drug ThermoDox in combination with MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a combination therapy to non-invasively treat difficult cancers has successfully completed the feasibility stage.
 

18F-fluetmetamol demonstrates amyloidosis affinity

Portal Exclusives | Thursday, August 27 2009
The 11C Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) has shown that it is a useful marker for amyloidosis, a pathogenic process in Alzheimer’s disease (AD); however, a facility must have an on-site cyclotron to produce the compound. A multinational team of researchers has found that the 18F-labeled thioflavin derivative of PiB, 18F-flutemetamol, shows promise for amyloidosis affinity, according to research published in this month’s Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
 

Virtual gastroscopy offers endoscopy alternative

Portal Exclusives | Thursday, August 06 2009
CT gastroscopy, or virtual gastroscopy, is almost equally useful in distinguishing between malignant and benign gastric ulcers, according to research published this month in Radiology.
 

Philips debuts new mammography workstation

New Products | Thursday, June 25 2009
Philips has introduced its MammoDiagnost VU, a standalone mammography workstation that enables multi-vendor and multimodality image management and integration, to the U.S. market.
 

Digisonics adds clients to roster

Contracts & Installations | Friday, June 12 2009
Two medical facilities in Oregon have installed image management and reporting systems from Digisonics.
 

peerVue bolsters customer list in Q1

Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, May 13 2009
peerVue reported that is has added five new customers for its qiVue product in the first quarter of 2009.
 

Philips targets interventional setting with new display

New Products | Friday, April 24 2009
Philips Healthcare has released FlexVision XL, a 56-inch LCD screen that enables clinicians to display multiple images simultaneously in their  preferred size and layout.
 

KLAS dissects successful health IT mergers, acquisitions

Top Stories | Thursday, April 02 2009
One of the foremost factors in determining the success of a health IT merger or acquisition is the fate of the acquired company's senior management, according to a new report from healthcare research firm KLAS.
 

Philips updates microphone for Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking

New Products | Friday, March 27 2009
Royal Philips Electronics will equip its dictation microphone SpeechMike with SpeechControl, allowing SpeechMike to be used with its Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition program.
 
Web Exclusives

Feature: U.S. needs national strategy to curb imaging overutilization

Medical imaging overutilization--a growing concern in the U.S.--exposes patients to unnecessary radiation, while also adding to rising healthcare costs, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. In an interview, William R. Hendee, PhD, lead author, reviewed various methods by which medical imaging could be curtailed.

Radiology: Prelim study shows CE breast CT outperforms CT, mammo

Dedicated contrast-enhanced (CE) breast CT delivered significantly improved conspicuity of malignant breast lesions, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), compared with unenhanced breast CT and mammography, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

Radiology: Rad role may evolve as image-guided biopsies trend up

CT, ultrasound and MRI have helped shift biopsy techniques away from more invasive approaches toward image-guided percutaneous techniques, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology. The trend toward less-invasive approaches translates into enhanced safety and efficiency and could lead to more interaction between patients and radiologists.

CMS Webinar: Incentive payments to offset EHR adoption, not reimburse

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive payments are not considered reimbursement for money expended on EHR technology, but are intended to offset the cost associated with adoption and ongoing meaningful use, according to CMS during an Aug. 12 webinar.

CMS webinar: Eligible professionals can expect EHR incentives in 2011

Funding incentives for EHR use is the main goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) meaningful use initiative, and there are incentive programs for both hospitals and eligible professionals, according to Elizabeth Holland, health insurance specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke during a CMS-sponsored webinar Aug. 8.

Webinar: Stage 1 of meaningful use is for quality reporting acclimation

Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use incentives aim to strike a balance between the overall goal of EHR use and widespread adoption, while avoiding added work, said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical informatics officer at Elsevier Health Services, during a HIMSS webinar titled “Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care.”

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