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SIR: Electric-pulse IR therapy used for pancreatic cancer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Irreversible electroporation, a new interventional radiology procedure, is being used to treat patients with inoperable locally advanced pancreatic cancer, attendees at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) annual meeting learned this week.
March 26, 2012
Anesthesia use spikes for endoscopy patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The use of anesthesia services in endoscopy -- both colonoscopy and upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy -- has increased substantially in recent years, according to a new study in the March 21 Journal of the American Medical Association.
March 19, 2012
Mostashari weighs in on whether EMRs lead to imaging use
By Cynthia E. Keen
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator of the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has jumped into the fray over whether the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to more imaging use, as claimed by a study published in the March issue of Health Affairs.
March 7, 2012
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HIMSS: Imaging included in stage 2 of meaningful use
By Erik L. Ridley
LAS VEGAS - Viewing of images will be included in the proposed stage 2 requirements for achieving meaningful use under the U.S. government's healthcare IT stimulus program, according to an announcement on Wednesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting.
February 21, 2012
U.S. hospitals' use of HIT doubled in 24 months
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The number of hospitals in the U.S. using healthcare IT has more than doubled over the past two years, according to an announcement made last week by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
February 20, 2012
NIST requests EHRs to evaluate usability
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a request to obtain electronic health record (EHR) software from developers so that the agency can evaluate usability.
February 16, 2012
IMV: Cardiologists using less imaging
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Efforts to crack down on the inappropriate use of medical imaging may be working, as cardiologists expect to use fewer medical imaging modalities per patient case in the future, according to a new report by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division.
February 8, 2012
Brigham achieves near-total use of CPOE for radiology
By Cynthia E. Keen
Brigham and Women's Hospital pioneered the use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in a large hospital when it installed a system in 2000. Now, an analysis in the February Journal of the American College of Radiology shows that nearly all radiology studies performed at the hospital are being ordered with CPOE.
February 1, 2012
AllPro offers ScanX uptime program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Digital imaging technology developer AllPro Imaging has introduced a new program targeted at eliminating downtime for customers of its ScanX digital radiography systems.
January 9, 2012
Emergency departments drive growth in CT use
By Kate Madden Yee
Emergency departments are major drivers of the recent explosion in CT utilization -- in fact, without emergency department use, CT utilization rates would have stayed almost flat in recent years, according to researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals.
December 28, 2011
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Implementing meaningful use isn't a cakewalk yet
By Cynthia E. Keen
CHICAGO - From a radiology perspective, meaningful use guidelines are challenging, with a minefield of unknowns and pitfalls. It's perhaps unsurprising, then, that a panel discussion on how radiology practices are actually handling meaningful use attracted quite a crowd on Tuesday at RSNA 2011.
November 30, 2011
RSNA, KLAS survey finds concerns about meaningful use
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiologists are concerned about the new meaningful use reporting requirements, according to the results of a survey by RSNA and research firm KLAS.
November 27, 2011
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