Imaging
Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Despite the complexity associated with computerized physician order entry, such systems can be used on a broad scale by medical facilities to schedule medical imaging exams, a new study focused on such efforts at Boston-based Brigham & Women’s Hospital concluded. What’s more, if properly used, CPOE can decrease inappropriate use of imagining while boosting the quality of patient care, according to the study’s authors.
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3 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adoption, CPOE, Imaging
Ip IK et al, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 9(2)
Purpose
The aim of this study was to assess whether an integrated imaging computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with embedded decision support for imaging can be accepted clinically.
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3 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adoption, CPOE, Decision Support, Imaging, Meaningful Use, Radiology
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“A study from the University of Maryland found that radiologists using iPad 2s to evaluate patients for tuberculosis (TB) took twice as long to make a diagnosis as they did when using a 27-inch LCD monitor.
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1 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Imaging, Radiology, tablet PC
Erica Carnevale, HealthWorks Collective
“Using the cloud requires turning over responsibility for data security and privacy to a third party—and that can be a concern for healthcare providers.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Imaging, Security
Jean DerGurahian, SearchHealthIT
“Radiologists might sometimes wonder if they’re operating in a health care vacuum. As federal initiatives and health IT lead to greater integration of the care delivery system, and health information exchange (HIE) initiatives means more providers are communicating, though, that sense will change.
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7 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Imaging, Radiology
Cerner Blog
“Adding digital images to a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) greatly simplifies the problem of capturing, managing, storing, and distributing these images. Cerner’s ImageAware solution allows you to capture all media types including document imaging, ECG and other waveforms, wound care photos, dermatology photos, PACS images and pathology images in a single virtual archive, creating a visual EHR.
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30 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Imaging, visualisation
PRNewswire
“DICOM Grid, today announced the release of AccessMyImages.com, a Personal Health Record (PHR) for medical imaging. This allows the patient to have control of their diagnostic images and reports through a secure web application and eliminates the time and costs associated with generating imaging CDs or film.
Patients who have to access resources at multiple healthcare facilities can easily participate in their care, without concerns over transporting CDs or film. This enables better continuity of care at a lower cost for hospitals and healthcare chains.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): dicom, Imaging
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Breast-imaging reports prepared using a speech-recognition system are eight times more likely than conventional dictation transcription reports to contain major errors, according to a study of 615 such documents.
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30 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): Imaging, Oncology, Reporting, Speech Recognition
Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“At heart, Watson is an electronic health record reader. Once that technology is correctly combined with picture archiving and communication system (PACS) technology, diagnosis times for patients could be shortened tremendously, according to Dr. Eliot Siegel, a radiology professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine.
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19 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Imaging, PACS, Radiology, Watson
Cynthia E. Keen, AuntMinnie
“The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is holding its annual meeting this week in the world’s capital of wonder, magic, and make believe. The event is attracting what’s expected to be a record crowd of up to 35,000 healthcare IT professionals to discuss what is increasingly becoming a reality: electronic health records (EHRs).
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Imaging, Interoperability
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“In the public hearings of the PCAST Work Group on 15-16 February we learned that the PCAST perceives the UEL in a manner that is quite different than I had imagined. Its view is more far-reaching. It embraces documents but does not conclude that they are the only way in which clinical information will be communicated or used. With this new view, I like what I see.
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): HL7, Imaging, SNOMED, Standards, Universal Exchange Language
Molly Peterson, Bloomberg
“A mobile medical-imaging application won approval from U.S. regulators to let doctors examine pictures from patient scans on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad.
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5 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Devices, Imaging, Industry, mHealth, Portable, smartphone
ScienceBlog
“Radiologists and referring clinicians frequently use portable media (CDs, DVDs) to review patient medical images acquired at outside imaging centers, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans, but issues regarding access, importability, and viewing of these portable media exist, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (www.jacr.org).
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4 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Imaging, Portable
Kalia V et al, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 8(1)
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to survey current practices for portable media (CDs and DVDs) use for medical imaging in both academic and nonacademic radiology departments in the United States.
Methods
This survey was a stratified, nonrandom sample, 22-question electronic survey, using SurveyMonkey, of members of the Association of Administrators in Academic Radiology, the Association for Medical Imaging Management, and the University HealthSystem Consortium, conducted in November 2009. Questions were grouped by media production and media viewing practices.
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4 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Imaging, Portable
Medical News Today
“You can check a person’s vital signs – pulse, respiration and blood pressure – manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working on a system that could measure these health indicators just by putting a person in front of a low-cost camera such as a laptop computer’s built-in webcam.
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6 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Devices, Imaging, Monitoring
Ryan Faas, EnterpriseMobileToday
“Since its release in April, the iPad’s presence in a wide variety of workplaces has steadily grown, as sales continue to surge. The iPad sold 3 million units in the first 80 days after its April release and its current sales rate is about 4.5 million units per quarter, vastly surpassing the 1 million units the iPhone sold in its first quarter, according to analysts cited in a report today by Fast Money.
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5 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Hospitals, Imaging, mHealth, Physician-Patient Relationship, tablet PC
John Halamka, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The federal government is spending nearly $30 billion on electronic health records to improve the nation’s healthcare. If I had infinite resources and time, and a greenfield for innovation, here’s how I’d design the EHR of the future:
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24 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Decision Support, e-prescribing, Health Information Exchange, Imaging, lab results, Notes
Lin A et al, AJR, 195(1)
OBJECTIVE.
Electronic medical record (EMR) systems permit integration of contextual nonimaging EMR data into examination interpretation; however, the extra effort required to search and review these nonradiologic data are not well characterized. We assessed the gross frequency and pattern of EMR usage in the interpretation of diagnostic CT and MRI examinations.
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23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emr, Imaging, Radiology, Workflow
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“With its 9.7-inch display, resolution of 1024×768 pixels and long battery life, Apple’s new, hot-selling iPad could be the first true mobile device to bring medical imaging access to the point of care, some radiologists, imaging professionals and software vendors say.
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29 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Imaging, Privacy, Radiology, Security, tablet PC
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Increasingly, physicians are considering moving their practices from paper to an Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform. Many factors weigh in this trend – advances in technology making such EHR tools more usable; a higher profile (and therefore an increased awareness) of EHRs seen in trade shows and medical conferences; and government incentives put in place by the 2009 ARRA/HITECH act giving physicians up to $44,000 for “meaningful use of certified EHRs.”
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3 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Broadband, Connectivity, Imaging, Internet, vendors
