Dear Business & Industry Insider,
Workflow management is all the rage in radiology right now, with multiple companies offering different flavors of software designed to enable departments and imaging centers to manage their chaotic schedules.
A new entrant into this market niche is Allocade, a Menlo Park, CA, company that's the subject of this edition's Insider Exclusive. Allocade has developed software called On-Cue that helps radiology departments manage the multiple interruptions and scheduling changes that can occur during normal operations.
The software is based on a scheduling-management engine that was originally developed for the Hubble Space Telescope and later applied to managing semiconductor fab operations. Will it fly in radiology? See for yourself by clicking here.
In other news in the community, executives at Lantheus Medical Imaging were surprised last week to find their Definity echocardiography contrast agent on a safety watch list of 20 pharmaceuticals published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Find out why Lantheus believes the list could be misleading for healthcare providers by clicking here.
Finally, get the latest update on the European molybdenum supply crisis, in which the shutdown of nuclear reactors in the Netherlands and Belgium has imperiled supplies of the precursor radioisotope to technetium-99m, commonly used in nuclear cardiology studies. That story is available here.
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