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HIMSS reacts to FDASIA healthcare IT report

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) this week submitted comments on a new regulatory scheme proposed for healthcare IT software.

July 9, 2014

What kind of after-hours imaging service do ED docs want?

By Kate Madden Yee

Emergency department (ED) physicians increasingly want off-hours imaging scans interpreted via final reads from attending radiologists rather than preliminary reads from residents. And more of them are getting their way, according to a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

July 8, 2014

Automated algorithms help spot change in serial CT exams

By Erik L. Ridley

Most PACS vendors don't include automatic deformable image registration algorithms in their workstation software. But they should, as these can sharply reduce the time it takes for radiologists to match lung nodule locations on serial lung CT scans, according to researchers from Stony Brook Medicine.

July 6, 2014

Cash injection brings teleradiology progress in Turkey

By Frances Rylands-Monk

A network of 100 mobile mammography units is due to be deployed across Turkey within the next year as part of a 183 million euro teleradiology screening project. Dr. Utku Şenol, president of the Turkish Medical Informatics Association, speaks about this and other developments.

July 2, 2014

HIMSS, Dorenfest issue HIT report

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A new report that analyzes healthcare IT purchasing by hospital tax status has been issued by HIMSS Analytics and the Dorenfest Institute for Health Information.

June 30, 2014

Dell to sell PACSHealth dose monitoring software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Dell has signed an agreement with PHS Technologies Group, a unit of PACSHealth, to sell that firm's DoseMonitor OnLine radiation dose monitoring service.

June 30, 2014