Practice Management: Page 607

SPR, SNM expand pediatric dose initiative

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

SNM and the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) have expanded their pediatric radiation protection initiative by issuing guidelines for standardized radiopharmaceutical doses in children.

October 12, 2010

Mayo's Ehman named to IOM

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Mayo Clinic radiologist and researcher Richard Ehman, MD, has been named by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in Washington, DC.

October 12, 2010

Leaders in Imaging: A conversation with William Hendee, PhD

By Kate Madden Yee

AuntMinnie.com is pleased to present the next installment of Leaders in Imaging, a series of interviews with individuals who are shaping the radiology landscape. We spoke with William Hendee, PhD, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

October 12, 2010

Patients with incurable cancer keep getting screened

By Kate Madden Yee

Patients with a diagnosis of advanced cancer continue to undergo common cancer screening tests that are unlikely to be beneficial, according to a study published October 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

October 11, 2010

U.S. hospital CIOs concerned about IT staff shortages

By Cynthia E. Keen

A shortage of IT professionals may impede initiatives by hospitals throughout the U.S. to adopt electronic health records, according to a new report from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.

October 11, 2010

Physician-patient e-mail exchanges are minimal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Center for Studying Health System Change has reported that fewer than 7% of office-based physicians used e-mail in 2008 to communicate with their patients.

October 11, 2010