Jonathan S. Batchelor[email protected]AdministrationCompliance program essential for reducing fraud and abuse liabilitySCOTTSDALE, AZ -- The losses associated with healthcare fraud hover near $54 billion annually in the U.S. As radiology gets a bigger slice of the healthcare pie, it will come under greater scrutiny by the FBI for fraud, according to a presention at the Radiology Business Management Association 2001 meeting.June 5, 2001AdministrationLegal eagle wants to protect your practice from recalcitrant payorsSCOTTSDALE, AZ — In today’s managed care climate, there’s no shortage of difficult, or just plain defaulting, payors. Judging from comments made by attendees at the Radiology Business Management Association’s (RBMA) 2001 radiology summit on Monday, U.S. healthcare providers have too often been left holding the bag.June 4, 2001PACS/VNAPACS/RIS integration saves time and moneyTo assess the impact of RIS on PACS, researchers from the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology in Germany measured their installation's effect on the bottom line. They outlined a methodology for quantifying the savings at the 2001 European Congress of Radiology in Vienna.May 31, 2001PACS/VNARIS/PACS integration defeats data duplicationA high error rate made it nearly impossible to associate images with reports at the department of medical and diagnostic sciences at the University of Padova in Italy. So Dr. Claudio Saccavini and his colleagues at the institution set out to solve the problem by integrating their PACS with their RIS.May 10, 2001RSNAOne size doesn't fit all in clinical image viewingWhile interpretation workstations have received ample R&D attention, the clinical review station has more often been ignored in its role as "interpretation station lite." However, a usability study at this week's SCAR meeting did look at nondiagnostic viewers, and found their users' needs to be quite specific.May 5, 2001PACS/VNAEMR systems take planning and perseveranceSALT LAKE CITY - The future of computer applications in radiology lies in their integration into an electronic medical record (EMR) system. Three presenters capped the week's SCAR conference by describing how they brought EMR and the paperless practice to their institutions. One of them confiscated the printers.May 5, 2001PACS/VNASCAR proposes radiology informatics fellowships/grantsSALT LAKE CITY - The academic discipline of medical informatics is being developed at universities across the U.S. But radiology, arguably the medical science most heavily dependent on the seamless transfer and display of digital information, doesn't yet have a universally accepted curriculum for the emerging specialty.May 5, 2001PACS/VNAUCSF researchers test performance of dual archiving optionsSALT LAKE CITY - The first stage of PACS evolution was all about getting a system into a facility. The next stage involves delivering a system that is both fault-tolerant, and fast enough to meet the needs of its users for images on demand.May 5, 2001PACS/VNADistributed archiving provides PACS protectionSALT LAKE CITY - There are a lot of things that can go wrong with a PACS network. Data lines can be severed, workstations can crash, databases can be corrupted, modalities can take a holiday -- the list can seem endless. However, PACS administrators can design at least one component, the distributed archive, to be nearly failure-proof.May 5, 2001Clinical NewsSCAR speaker puts panoramic radiography through its pacesSALT LAKE CITY - Panoramic radiography isn't just for dental offices anymore; it's being used in hospital emergency rooms to evaluate possible mandibular fractures. As part of the ER complement of modalities, panoramic radiography needs to be digital (to integrate into a PACS), and it needs to be fast.May 4, 2001Previous PagePage 76 of 82Next PageTop StoriesCTNew benchmark helps monitor cumulative CT radiation doseThe findings highlight the need for systematic dose tracking and rigorous justification of imaging.Radiation Oncology/TherapyStudy questions routine use of radiotherapy after bone surgeryUltrasoundCEUS outshines color Doppler imaging for indeterminate kidney lesionsWomens ImagingWomen's Imaging MinnieCast, Episode 2: Risk-based vs. annual mammography screening, part 1Digital X-RayChest x-rays reveal atherosclerosis in patients undergoing amputations
