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.

eCardio, a developer of arrhythmia monitoring solutions, has added Thomas Strachan to the senior leadership team in the role of vice president (VP).

In 2006, John A. Spertus, MD, and his colleagues at the Mid America Heart Institute of Saint Lukes Hospital in Kansas, Mo., engineered a web-based toolPREDICT (Patient Refined Expectations for Deciding Invasive Cardiac Treatments)to scientifically enhance the informed consent process and provide better procedural outcome transparency to patients.

When used in conjunction with an experienced radiologist, the use of computer-aided detection (CAD) for lung nodule detection on chest radiograph with CT angiography (CTA) correlation presents very good sensitivity, specificity and accuracy, according to a study published online March 31 in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

In a routine clinical setting, the pharmacologic stress agent regadenoson with and without low-level treadmill exercise is safe and well tolerated. Those patients who exercised had fewer side effects and a drop in blood pressure, according to a study published online April 23 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) hosted a national summit in Atlanta last week, calling for the standardization of scanning techniques as a way of addressing the recent media attention and concerns of patients undergoing CT scans.

St. Jude Medical has launched its wireless USB adaptor for the Merlin@Home transmitter, a patient home monitoring system that examines patients with implantable cardiac devices remotely.

To help hospitals comply with 2010 Joint Commission National Patient Safety goals to prevent and reduce adverse events associated with anticoagulation therapy, Hospira has launched the Anticoagulation Assistant knowledge module.