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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
Road to RSNA 2009: Women's Imaging Preview
By Kate Madden Yee
November 3, 2009
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As a career, breast imaging still unattractive to most residents
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:50 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | SSM01-06 | Arie Crown TheaterIn this Wednesday afternoon scientific session presentation, University of California, Los Angeles researchers will present a study indicating that breast imaging is not an attractive career path for the majority of radiology residents.
November 3, 2009
Digital mammography cuts acquisition, interpretation time for diagnostic exams
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SSM01-05 | Arie Crown TheaterDigital mammography shortens acquisition and interpretation time for diagnostic exams, according to this scientific session presentation to be given by researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.
November 3, 2009
Digitized priors slash reading time for FFDM screening exams
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSM01-01 | Arie Crown TheaterUsing digitized prior analog mammograms greatly reduces interpretation time for full-field digital mammography (FFDM) screening exams, according to researchers from George Washington University Medical Center.
November 3, 2009
Number of mammography facilities affects breast cancer outcomes in Georgia
By Kate Madden Yee
Wednesday, December 2 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSK11-04 | Room S102DIn this Wednesday morning scientific session presentation, researchers from Georgia will discuss a study that could have public policy implications -- the team's findings seem to support the hypothesis that areas with better access to mammography have lower mortality rates for breast cancer.
November 3, 2009
MRI accurately determines breast tumor size at surgery
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, December 1 | 3:50 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | SSJ01-06 | Arie Crown TheaterWomen with advanced breast cancer are more frequently undergoing chemotherapy before surgery, and MRI is the best way for doctors to assess the size of breast tumors at this treatment juncture, according to researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine.
November 3, 2009
MRI follow-up prudent when breast MRI biopsy cancelled
By Kate Madden Yee
Tuesday, December 1 | 3:20 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | SSJ01-03 | Arie Crown TheaterAn inability to see the original lesion at MRI biopsy may be influenced by both hormonal and nonhormonal factors, according to researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. And if this happens, short-term follow-up with breast MRI may be appropriate.
November 3, 2009
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