[caption id="attachment_2953" align="alignleft" width="142"] Glen Nicholson, Medical Sales, Carestream Canada[/caption] At the beginning of the year I posed an interesting question to Cheryl Malcolmson, RT (R), Manager, Diagnostic Imaging, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Canada: “Can I interest you in a test drive?” No, I wasn’t selling her a
Read More[caption id="attachment_2657" align="alignleft" width="104"] Helen Titus, Marketing Director, Digital Capture Solutions, Carestream[/caption] Back in 2009, USA Today reported that “Each of the nation’s 5,700 hospitals must cut $2.6 million a year on average in costs in the next 10 years to meet the demands of President
Read More[caption id="attachment_2359" align="alignleft" width="118" caption="Sean Reilly, publisher, Imaging Technology News"][/caption] Editor’s note: This post first appeared on ITNonline.com's publisher blog. Re-posted with author permission. Murphy's Law
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Recently, we received FDA clearance for the use of our Vue Motion medical image viewer with mobile devices. Supported devices for this new technology include the iPad and almost all other mobile tablets. What makes Vue Motion so unique is that its the first web-based viewer that
Read MoreA few weeks post RSNA 2011 and we thought we’d look back at two of the fun moments from this year’s meeting. Dancing with the CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution* Carestream's Martin S. Pesce, RT, Applications Engineer, gets perfect 10s from the judges at RSNA for his pirouettes with the
Read MoreCandace Tretter, Director of Radiology Services, Blessing Hospital, Quincy, Ill. discusses her facility's conversion from CR to DR systems; improvements in efficiency and dose reduction, and shares her feedback on the preview of CARESTREAM's DRX-Revolution* Mobile X-Ray System at RSNA 2011. *Not Commercially Available
Read MoreRobin A Wible, CNMT, CRA, Director of Imaging, Memorial Hospital in York, Pa, stopped by the Carestream booth at RSNA 2011 to talk about the challenges and opportunities facing radiology providers today. Watch below for her thoughts on capital constraints, dose reduction and portable imaging.
Read MorePortable imaging has been a big draw to our booth this week at RSNA. Mobile x-ray systems are an essential tool in treating what are often the sickest of patients - those confined to bed and in need of urgent care. However, bedside diagnostic imaging also
Read MoreEditors Note: We asked Betty Ward, Imaging Director, Roper St. Francis Healthcare, to share her feedback on Carestream's prototype DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System, which is not yet commercially available. Ward can also be seen in the video below following her preview of the system at AHRA. Portable imaging
Read MoreEditors Note: Leading up to RSNA 2011 we’ve asked Carestream’s Medical Advisory Board members for their insight into the radiology trends we expect to be hot topics at the show. [caption id="attachment_1002" align="alignleft" width="90"] Dr. Roger Eng, Chairman of Radiology, Chinese Hospital, and President of Golden Gate Radiology Medical
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