Imaging Informatics: Page 1038

Are referring physicians really listening?
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, December 1 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSG10-04 | Room S402ABAre referring physicians responding to recommendations for additional imaging procedures by radiologists? Precise answers to this age-old question -- made more difficult by the reduction of direct radiologist and physician communication that resulted from conversion to RIS and PACS -- can now be obtained through the implementation of electronic medical records.
November 4, 2009
Factors affecting error rate in speech recognition dictation
By Cynthia E. Keen
Tuesday, December 1 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | SSG10-01 | Room S402ABUse of speech recognition software has greatly expedited radiology report turnaround time and has transformed the way that reports are authored, but at what cost? The subject of errors made using this medium is seldom discussed, so this ambitious study of almost 18,000 radiology reports is refreshing in its size and candor.
November 4, 2009
DEXA talks: Automating transfer of reports to structured dictation systems
By Cynthia E. Keen
Monday, November 30 | 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. | LL-IN2118-D03 | Lakeside Learning CenterAs a community hospital and expanding healthcare enterprise, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose was an outstanding innovator, role model, and successful adopter in the early stages of the digital revolution of radiology and informatics. So it's no surprise that the hospital's diagnostic imaging department automated the process of transferring reports from a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanner into its RIS using a speech recognition structured dictation system.
November 4, 2009
Harnessing informatics to analyze minutiae: Identifying errors in MRI of the spine
By Cynthia E. Keen
Monday, November 30 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSC07-09 | Room S102DThe ability of radiology report search engines to identify very precise information contained within massive electronic medical archives will be aptly demonstrated in this presentation by Dr. Minal Jagtiani Sangwaiya.
November 4, 2009
Online radiology incident reporting system identifies error sources
By Cynthia E. Keen
Monday, November 30 | 10:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SSC07-03 | Room S102DAwareness of medical incidents, errors, and near misses is one of the most effective ways of identifying the means to prevent them. Down Under, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists is sponsoring an online Radiology Events Register, a database collecting voluntarily reported adverse incidents and discrepancies in radiology.
November 4, 2009
The Annual Update: What's doing with caBIG and the NBIA?
By Cynthia E. Keen
Monday, November 30 | 10:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SSC08-03 | Room S402ABDr. Eliot Siegel, vice chairman of the department of diagnostic radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, will deliver his annual state-of-the-project update about the National Cancer Institute's Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and the National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA).
November 4, 2009
Building barriers against orders for low-utility examinations
By Cynthia E. Keen
Sunday, November 29 | 11:05 a.m.-11:15 a.m. | SSA11-03 | Room S403AFrom a diagnostic imaging perspective, computerized order entry systems have the potential to monitor the number and types of procedures that physicians order, to alert physicians to the existence of prior patient exams, and to enforce or enlighten physicians to practice evidence-based medicine. Radiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital have elected the enlightenment approach -- with barriers established for nonconformance.
November 4, 2009
CRi launches image analysis software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Biomedical imaging company Cambridge Research and Instrumentation (CRi) has launched inForm, image analysis software used to automate image processing coupled with advanced learning to train the software to process images.
November 3, 2009
Emageon deal doubles Amicas revenues
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Boston-based PACS vendor Amicas enjoyed another quarter of sharply higher revenues, thanks to sales contributed by its purchase of Emageon earlier this year.
November 3, 2009
Medis unveils software enhancements
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Quantification software provider Medis Medical Imaging Systems has released the 7.2 version of QAngio XA for quantitative analysis of peripheral and coronary vessels in angiograms.
November 3, 2009
Medavis adds features to Importer Pro
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
German PACS vendor Medavis will unveil new features of its DICOM Importer Pro software designed to enable import of DICOM standard images into PACS archives worldwide.
November 3, 2009
Candelis, Siemens ink distribution deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Archive developer and medical informatics company Candelis and Siemens Healthcare have announced plans to distribute and sell the ImageGrid PACS-RT Appliance and ImageGrid RT Viewer through the Siemens Oncology Care Systems business unit.
November 3, 2009
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