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Siemens Healthineers, Tower Health enter 10-year partnership

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Siemens Healthineers and Tower Health have formed a 10-year Value Partnership that will focus on equipment enhancement, technology modernization, and improving clinical experience for patients. This includes devices and scanners related to CT, MRI, interventional radiology, and Varian radiation oncology therapies.

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What has radiology learned in 5 years since COVID hit U.S.?

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While screening mammography services were halted, Patel and colleagues continued with diagnostic imaging services, especially for symptomatic patients. Ramesh Rengan, MD, PhD, from the University of Washington in Seattle, meanwhile, said that special considerations were taken into account for treating cancer patients via radiation oncology.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 5 -- Advice from center administrators

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As nuclear medicine therapies gain stature compared to nuclear medicine in diagnostic imaging, hospital administrators may be eyeing the potential of adding theranostics services. At the time, their cancer center served a significant cancer population in the region and maintained robust and ever-expanding PET diagnostics.

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Imaging societies' reactions mixed on finalized MPFS, HOPPS rules

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reduction in average Medicare payment rates compared with 2024, the CMS has estimated there will be a 0% change to reimbursement for radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiation oncology. The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) was disappointed in the final MPFS rule.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 3 -- What is a theranostics center?

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Eliot Siegel, MD; Stanislav Spiridonov, MD; Nathan Gee, MD; and Anthony Chang, PhD, are among a niche gathering of early adopters, entrepreneurial physicians, medical physicists, and investors with a sweet spot for nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology.

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Evergreen Theragnostics raises $26M

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With the funding, the Springfield, NJ-based company plans to advance commercialization of its Ga-68 DOTATOC diagnostic kit, and further its theranostic pair, EVG-321, into clinical trials. Evergreen Theragnostics has raised $26 million in capital through its existing shareholders and new backers Petrichor and LIFTT.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 2 -- Moving into communities

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Even if some private urology, radiation oncology practices, or radiologist groups are building the ability to perform theranostics, experts are cautious about patient management, radiation safety, and the risk of unnecessary imaging. When, in 2022, the U.S.