Posts Tagged ‘GE’
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
OK, I’ve been reading too many headlines in supermarket check-out aisles, but what else is a guy with an overactive imagination supposed to come up with?
You see, back in 1983 when GE was going through their pre-market approvals with the FDA for their first commercial clinical MRI system, they indicated that MRI suite safety minimally required ferromagnetic detection pre-screening. The only problem was, it hadn’t been invented yet!
Click Here For The Rest Of The Time-Traveling Story…
Tags: airport, death, detection, detector, FDA, ferromagnetic, GE, General Electric, hazard, healthcare, Hitachi, injury, metal, missile, MRI, Philips, physicist, projectile, regulation, safety, Siemens, Toshiba
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Go grab yourself a cup of coffee before you continue… this is going to be a long (for me, anyway) rant.
Ready? OK…
Let’s start at the very beginning (“what a very good place to start”). Click To Read The Whole Story…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, ASHE, best practice, colombini, death, detector, ECRI, FDA, ferromagnetic, GE, guidelines, Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, healthcare, imaging, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, law, lawsuit, legal, license, magnetic, magnetic resonance, Marzendorfer, Mednovus, metal, Michael, MRI, MRI Design Guide, radiology, regulation, require, safety, Siemens, standard, TJC, VA
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 5 Comments »
Monday, January 18th, 2010
In the radiology community, it’s widely known… the economic downturn has eviscerated the equipment manufacturers’ sales of high-dollar imaging tools. The sour economy, coupled with the drastic cuts in MRI and CT reimbursements, in particular, have hit those two modalities hardest. Eighteen months into this economic malaise, are there signs of recovery? Apparently GE Healthcare thinks so…
Is GE Preparing For The MRI Rebound?
Click For Details On Thawing MRI Markets…
Tags: buy, economy, equipment, GE, growth, imaging, magnetic resonance, manufacturer, MRI, new, obsolescence, obsolete, radiology, sales, used
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