Cynthia E. Keen

PACS/VNA
SIIM: Healthcare IT industry lags behind consumer industry IT
MINNEAPOLIS - Imaging informatics has made significant strides since the Dark Ages of 15 years ago, the era of primitive PACS. But healthcare information technology is lagging 20 years behind the times compared to other industries' sophisticated use of IT technology capabilities that exist today.
June 4, 2010
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PACS/VNA
SIIM speakers describe new frontier of business analytics
MINNEAPOLIS - 2010 is to business analytics as 1990 was to PACS: two technologies with the potential to revolutionize the operations of imaging departments, each poised for takeoff at the beginning of an era, and each being mentored by the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
June 3, 2010
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IS
Is your office copier a hole in your HIPAA security plan?
The lowly office copy machine can be a treasure trove of data vulnerable to identity theft and a potentially massive healthcare privacy rule violation. Many healthcare providers are scrambling to shut this security hole following televised reports of patient data found on copiers discarded by medical facilities.
June 1, 2010
Radiation Oncology/Therapy
Long-term APBI outcomes are comparable in low-risk patients
A study presenting the 10-year outcomes of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) treatment in early-stage, low-risk breast cancer patients gives reason to cheer, finding disease-free survival to be comparable for all patients.
May 30, 2010
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Tenn. BCBS completes hard drive theft remediation
Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) of Tennessee announced that it has completed its audit, remediation, and notification process for nearly 1 million of its members whose identification and health information had potentially been compromised after a theft of hard drives from a training center last fall.
May 25, 2010
CT
Pediatric CT settings should be adjusted to child's body size
Body diameter measurements, not age, should be the criteria to determine optimal radiation exposure factors for children having CT exams, according to recent research conducted by pediatric radiologists and medical physicists from Children's Hospital Boston.
May 24, 2010
Radiation Oncology/Therapy
Elderly early-stage breast cancer patients don't need RT
Few women older than 70 who are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer without lymph node involvement need radiation therapy (RT) after having a lumpectomy, according to the most recent findings of a large multi-institutional trial to be presented next month at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
May 20, 2010
Radiation Oncology/Therapy
U.K. oncology center learns lessons with tomotherapy adoption
How does a busy radiation oncology department adopt and implement a new treatment technology with which it has no prior experience? Through careful planning, effective teamwork, and ample time allocated for training and development of a rigorous quality assurance program.
May 17, 2010
MRI
Teens contribute to radiology-related research
Today's teens may have a reputation as slackers addicted to video games and iPhones, but teen researchers are making a difference in medical imaging with research studies presented at medical conferences in the past month, including one at this week's American Thoracic Society meeting in New Orleans.
May 16, 2010
Radiation Oncology/Therapy
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