Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have developed a technique that allows fully automated 3D coronary lumen geometry extraction based on 320-detector row coronary CT angiography images. Frank J. Rybicki, MD, PhD, co-director of the cardiovascular imaging section at the facility, showcased the technique in a scientific presentation at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, which took place last week in Boston.
GE Healthcare has signed a research agreement with Brigham & Women's Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston, to establish a PET molecular imaging center, which will house a GE cyclotron for the development of PET radiopharmaceuticals.
In female cancer patients of reproductive age, a mutlidsciplinary approach to ovarian radiation treatment should be taken due to the direct relationship between certain types of radiation therapy and fertility problems, according to a review in the April 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics.
IBM is working with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston to create a virtual Radiology Theatre, where teams of medical experts can simultaneously discuss and review patients' medical data using a secure web browser.
Mailed reminders to patients appear to promote colon cancer screening, according to a report in the Feb. 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, electronic reminders to physicians appear to increase screening among patients with more frequent primary care visits.
At Texas hospitals that have automated some aspects of their information systems, patients appear to have fewer complications, lower death rates and reduced costs, according to a report in the Jan. 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Toshiba Medical Systems will support CorE 320, an international multi-center trial, beginning this month, to compare the effectiveness of 320-detector row dynamic volume CT to SPECT technology in identifying coronary stenosis.
Among high-risk patients with head and neck cancer, chest CT may help detect disease progression involving the lungs, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery.
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Physicians should review a patient's CT imaging history in the emergency department (ED) and cumulative radiation dose when considering whether to perform another CT exam, according to a study in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has named 13 members to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee, an advisory group established by the economic stimulus law that will make policy recommendations for the development and adoption of a nationwide health IT infrastructure, including standards for the exchange of patient data.
Patients who undergo numerous CT scans over their lifetime may be at increased risk for cancer, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.
Interventional radiology treatments are making childbirth safer for women who have C-sections that are complicated by massive bleeding and for those who suffer from the pregnancy condition of "invasive" placenta, according to two studies released at the annual meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) this week in San Diego.
Only two of 15 Medicare programs designed to improve care and costs for patients with chronic illnesses, such as coronary heart disease and heart failure, resulted in reduced hospital admissions, and none of the programs generated net savings, according to a study in the Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“The OR of the future will incorporate multimodality imaging,” predicted Ferenc Jolesz, MD, vice chairman for research in the department of radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Image guidance improves conventional surgical procedures by enhancing the eye with multimodality imaging and replacing the hand with image controlled devices such as robots or probes.
Diagnostic imaging business managers have access to a wide variety of data from a collection of clinical information systems; however, because of the disparate nature of these systems’ databases, developing meaningful metrics for practice management is difficult.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.