Proponents of CT colonography may lower the bar in measuring the imaging modality against conventional colonoscopy. After a wave of mediocre sensitivity results, many experts are asking whether it should be compared instead with optical colonoscopy or air contrast barium enema.

The name may be Radiological Society of North America, but the society has seen major growth from outside North America during the last 10 years in both membership and attendance at its annual meeting, according to RSNA president Dr. Brian C. Lentle.

Blue lasers have a shorter wavelength than traditionally used red lasers, allowing more data to be stored in smaller spaces. Two companies promoting blue laser technology at the RSNA meeting are presenting similar claims and products.

A system that mines radiology reports for trends and findings was displayed during a scientific session Sunday.

GE Healthcare hopes that its flagship LightSpeed VCT will lift the company out of the slice rut into which the CT industry has fallen. The company is positioning the premium scanner as the first true volumetric scanner.

In an industry that has come to define itself by numbers, Siemens Medical Solutions stands alone. According to company executives, it's not the number of CT slices that's important, nor the number of channels carrying data from the detector, and not even the speed at which the CT gantry turns. It's the resolution and robustness of the system and its ability to meet clinical needs within specific budgets.

Strategy and tactics distinguish Philips in CT. Not long ago, the company was a nonplayer in this modality, reliant on suppliers to obtain scanners to sell under the Philips label. That changed in 2002 with the acquisition of Marconi Medical Systems, which transformed Philips into a CT powerhouse. At last year's RSNA meeting, the company leaped beyond the expected 32-slice configuration to offer a 40-slice array rotating at 0.42 second and covering most body organs without motion artifact.

Toshiba's strength in CT is an outgrowth of its development of sensor technologies in key modalities. Efforts in CT have produced a 64-slice detector, which will be showcased at the RSNA meeting as part of a continuum of engineering that already extends to a 256-slice detector prototype. The company will display the prototype as evidence of its technological prowess.

CHICAGO and REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) and Microsoft Corp. today announced a call for entries for the MS-HUG

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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, the pioneering joint effort between the RSNA and medical informatics association HIMSS to stimulate device interoperability, has moved into the realm of the electronic health record. Attendees at the 2005 Annual

Physicians move through an increasingly high-tech world, yet they deal with woefully backward healthcare IT settings. Two books released by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society attempt to address this worrisome disconnect.While

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Patient safety concerns remain a top priority and business issue for CEOs and other senior executives of information technology vendor organizations who responded to the 15th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, sponsored by Superior Consultant Company. This

The recent advances in speech technology and hardware, coupled with proven financial and patient care benefits, have executives at hospitals and healthcare facilities strongly considering incorporating speech recognition into their informatics

Events of last August -- when three widespread infestations of computer worms attacked Windows-based systems -- illustrated the vulnerabilities of many medical applications, including PACS.The pressing need for software patches was also revealed. Yet

While digital imaging management through PACS is an accepted technology in radiology, it remains a foreign concept in other areas of medicine, and vendors may have struggles ahead as they try to expand into new fields. Those struggles were outlined