Dear AuntMinnie Member,
With all the hand-wringing over the cost of medical imaging, it's nice to hear good news about imaging's ability to save the healthcare system money.
This week in our Molecular Imaging Digital Community, staff writer Wayne Forrest reports on Johns Hopkins researchers who found that $150 million could be saved annually in the U.S. if PET/CT were used rather than CT to identify patients who would benefit from a stem cell transplant.
Every year transplants are performed on patients who won't benefit from them due to less accurate data from CT -- and PET/CT does a better job, the Johns Hopkins team found. Read more by clicking here, or visit our Molecular Imaging Digital Community at molecular.auntminnie.com.
New GE Healthcare chief
In other news, GE Healthcare announced today that it has appointed a new chief executive officer, John Dineen, following the departure of Joe Hogan, who had served in the post since 2000. Get the rest of the details on the personnel moves by clicking here.
