Risk Management: Page 9

Panama orders autopsies of radiation accident victims
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Panamanian health ministry’s special prosecutor, Cristóbal Arboleda, has ordered that any patients who die following radiation overdoses undergo an autopsy, Panamanian news agency La Prensa reported today.
July 4, 2001
JUM asserts importance of Down syndrome screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In opposition to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the June issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine featured a counterpoint article that called second-trimester sonography a valuable technology for identifying Down syndrome.
June 12, 2001
Second stage of Panama investigation begins
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The second stage of the Panamanian government's investigation into a fatal radiation therapy accident at the National Oncologic Institute in Panama began today, news agency La Prensa has reported.
June 6, 2001
How to compare a noninvasive test to a gold standard
By Eric Barnes
Noninvasive tests are challenging radiology's gold standards across the board. In the rush to provide safer and cheaper alternatives to invasive procedures, colonoscopy is yielding to VC, ECRP becomes MRCP, and V/Q is sent looking for PE and DVT. But are the new tests always the best choice? Just ask Dr. Tello.
June 6, 2001
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Investigation continues in fatal Panama radiation therapy accident
By Eric Barnes
Investigators in Panama are searching for the cause of a radiation therapy accident that killed one cancer patient and overradiated 27 others.
May 28, 2001
Sunquest to debut radiology alerting system
By Kate Madden Yee
SALT LAKE CITY - Medical errors continue to exact a highly publicized toll on the healthcare system in the U.S., both in patient mortality and dollars. As more and more states introduce legislation to deal with the problem, information systems firms are developing alerting software that connects patient information to the people who need it, in hopes of reducing the incidence of medical error.
May 2, 2001
New ARRS president cautions against turning ‘healthy people into sick people’
By Shalmali Pal
SEATTLE - When it comes to the fight against cancer, radiologists are armed with formidable tools of detection, allowing them to see disease in its earliest stages. But is that really what the role of imaging should be?
April 29, 2001
ACNP and SNM fail to modify nuclear medicine regulations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has denied a petition to modify its proposed regulation of diagnostic nuclear medicine.
April 17, 2001
HIMSS embraces HIPAA privacy regulations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has joined forces with the Coalition for Health Information Policy to promote adoption of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy regulations.
April 2, 2001
IT veteran offers advice on real-world HIPAA implementation
By Brian Casey
NEW ORLEANS - HIPAA presentations are packed to capacity at this week’s Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society meeting, as healthcare IT experts look for ways to create workable policies under the new law. Attendees got what they came for in a presentation by Rita Aikins of Provident Health Systems, who spent two years learning the true meaning of HIPAA compliance.
February 6, 2001
Final PMA approvals for December 2000
Issued January 12, 2001
Each month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) releases a final list of premarket approvals (PMA), product development protocols (PDP), supplement and notice decisions from the previous month. The following decisions were rendered for December 2000.
January 11, 2001
SNM, ACNP petition to streamline regulation of byproducts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
January 7, 2001
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