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The RSNA 2012 theme is Patients First. IAMERS will be in attendance at Booth 3704 There are three IAMERS meetings per year where the membership can vote on critical issues. These are your opportunities to have your voice heard. It’s important to be at these meetings, and to vote on the issues which affect our trade [...]
Evan Bayh in the Wall Street Journal in late September tells the story of the damage to jobs and innovation that is caused by the President's 2.3% tax on medical devices. Layoffs are being planned, R&D budgets are being slashed and corporations are considering moving as we move closer to implementation. Bayh argues that Congress [...]
MRI is pushing hard against the traditional space for PET/CT and other nuclear imaging. With the worry about radiation exposure will this technology win out over PET/CT? read more
The report in today’s Health Imaging internet news, “Got an iPhone? Image an Ear Infection.” May not mean much to IAMERS members immediately, but spend a few moments, read the short news story and consider where diagnostic medicine is heading. 15 million visits each year to the pediatrician just for ear infections. With this app [...]
Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA) is growing as it should. As with any new applications in diagnostic medicine there are incidences of inappropriate use. However, the ability for this technology to identify those without significant coronary artery disease (CAD) is significant. The test is less expensive than cardiac catheterization and certainly brings with it much lower [...]
The radiology community over the past three years has really taken it on the chin for unnecessary patient exposure to ionizing radiation. The report from HealthImaging this morning and linked here is the latest of many showing how to alter the dose to the patient and still get acceptable diagnostic scans. We're heading in the [...]
The latest article from Radiology, August 8, 2012, was reported on by HealthImaging. The results seem conclusive that CCTA can now be depended upon for raising the bar for diagnosing CAD in patients with previously abnormal SPECT scans. But do the results tell the whole story? That's the question to be answered. Clearly the specificity is [...]
AHRA reports that ICDs and other causes of accidents and personal injury from the use of MRI have improved remarkably. After reading this report your shoulder or back may suddenly improve and no longer require a scan. http://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_articles&article=34828&publication=137&view=portals
A study recently appeared in the NEJM comparing the average approval times for innovative, high risk medical devices in the U.S. and in Europe. It appears for new devices the approval times are similar overall. I think the key is that these are innovative (new technology) rather than more of the same. The authors of [...]