An 8 year old MRI unit was being returned to the manufacturer. The FDA does not track these incidents and there have been around 5 of them and they mostly go unreported. One unit exploded in the middle of the night on it’s own. The video below was from 2006 and most of the incidents...
The 3D Slicer project has been funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health. Slicer is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, so it looks like almost everyone is covered here. From the software side of things it has plug-in capabilities that can interoperate with...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Dicom, PACS, Medical Imaging, MRI, Harvard Medical School, software, CT Scan, MIT, Slice technology, 3D slicer, Collider, Open Source Software
Dictation services for Radiology with the integration of the two services. More about the hospital integration services can be found here. Recently I have posted about Philips and their investments with the manufacturing of MRI machines in China as well, so they have a pretty large portfolio...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-29-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Silverlight, Radiology, MRI, Common User Interface, Heatlh IT, Amalga, Speech Recognition, Philips, Speech Magic
Good article about the diagnosis process....we have all the medical equipment to perform such tests, but many times insurance companies will not pay, or sometimes is it easier to just prescribe a pill....the story shows some surprising results and offers additional information, such as determining an...