Practice Management: Page 902

AMIA forms healthcare informatics training initiative
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) of Bethesda, MD, said that it has formed a program called 10x10. The group hopes to train 10,000 healthcare professionals in applied health and medical informatics by the year 2010.
May 31, 2005
Need SAMs for recertification? ARRS offerings prove popular
By Tracie L. Thompson
Relatively few radiologists are currently required to complete self-assessment modules in diagnostic radiology, but others still stood in line to check out the first SAMs approved by the American Board of Radiology.
May 31, 2005
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AuntMinnie.com Imaging Center Radiology Insider
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
May 30, 2005
JAMA study: 'Defensive medicine' fuels unneeded imaging exams
By Tracie L. Thompson
The conclusion may seem anecdotally obvious to many U.S. radiologists, but new data is confirming a connection between the hot-button issues of malpractice liability and the growth in utilization of diagnostic imaging.
May 30, 2005
Radiology's class war? SalaryScan reveals red state/blue state divide
By Brian Casey
AuntMinnie.com's 2005 SalaryScan survey of radiology salaries found interesting parallels between the incomes of different radiology professionals and the states they live in. Radiologists tended to garner the highest salaries in red states and the lowest in blue states, while the situation was reversed for radiologic technologists.
May 30, 2005
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IOM advocates more monitoring of ailing mammo services
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In a report released this week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has offered its take on how to overhaul U.S. breast cancer screening programs -- greater regulation of screening programs.
May 26, 2005
Court approves Cedara merger with Merge
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian imaging software developer Cedara Software of Mississauga, Ontario, said it has received a final order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approving the plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act to effect Cedara's merger with RIS and PACS developer Merge eFilm of Milwaukee.
May 26, 2005
Inpatient imaging not driving higher hospital costs
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Although diagnostic imaging has lately become a whipping boy for rising healthcare costs in the U.S., a study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston contends that the cost of imaging technology in a hospital inpatient setting rose at roughly the same rate as other healthcare items.
May 26, 2005
Racial profiling: fMRI links brain activity and black-white bias
By Shalmali Pal
A variety of factors help determine how we each feel about, and react to, people of different ethnicities. These factors are closely tied to a neurological reaction that may determine our emotional response to race -- whether we are conscious of it or not. A number of recent neuroimaging studies have investigated the connection between our brains and race processing.
May 26, 2005
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Kirkpatrick named Research Corporation Technologies CEO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare technology venture development firm Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) has selected Shaun Kirkpatrick as its president and chief executive officer.
May 25, 2005
Midwest weighs incremental Medicare gain for VC
By Eric Barnes
Considering the dim prospects for quick action on a U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services national coverage decision that would cover virtual colonoscopy as a cancer screening option, the efforts of a few local carriers represent progress of a sort for virtual colonoscopy.
May 25, 2005
Medicalis adds ACR appropriateness criteria
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Decision-support software developer Medicalis of Kitchener, Ontario, has incorporated the American College of Radiology's (ACR) appropriateness criteria guidelines into its Percipio clinical decision-support application.
May 24, 2005
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