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“Ultrasound is the established modality of choice to evaluate the female pelvis, so why do patients with pelvic masses or pain get a CT scan? In my opinion, doing a CT scan first for female patients with lower abdominal pain is dangerous and wasteful, a drain of much-needed healthcare dollars,” wrote Beryl Benacerraf, MD, in an editorial published in the March issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
Embedding clinical images into radiology reports can not only save time, but can increase physician confidence in selecting treatment plans for the patient and enhance radiologists’ communication with referring physicians, said a study published online today in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
A malignancy index constructed by using magnetic resonance spectra based on prostate cancer metabolomic profiles obtained from previous intact tissue had an accuracy of 93 to 97 percent for detecting the presence of prostate cancer lesions, according to an article published in the January issue of Science Translational Medicine.
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, which could be an alternative to drug-eluting stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease, according to research published in the Jan. 18 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A software application integrated with an EHR might display data to physicians about ambient public health conditions and prompt appropriate management, treatment and reporting processes based on a calculation that considered patient factors in a specific epidemiologic situation could be important for future clinical decision support (CDS) systems, according to a study in the January edition of the Journal of the American Medical informatics Association.
An H1N1 flu iPhone application has been unveiled by the Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.
EHRs could be used to predict a patient’s risk of suffering domestic abuse, according to research published Sept. 29 in the online version of the British Medical Journal.
CT angiography (CTA) can identify abnormalities and injury beyond the pulmonary arteries, including broken bones and heart disease in pediatric patients, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The Health IT Standards Committee approved measures that healthcare providers must put in place by 2011 and delivered a roadmap for future work on July 21.
A report published June 23 in Cancer Research highlights a new biomarker that may be useful in identifying patients with recurrent glioblastoma who would respond better to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy, specifically cediranib.
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Proton beam radiation therapy showed encouraging results for patients with locally advanced sinonasal malignancies, according to a study presented Feb.25 at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Chandler, Ariz.
William Denman, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer (CMO) at GE Healthcare.
Acute adverse reactions from gadolinium-based contrast agents used during MRI to help improve the information seen on the images rarely occur, according to a study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Rb-82 PET is gaining momentum in cardiac imaging with the technetium shortage continuing and an increase in reimbursements in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for PET myocardial perfusion imaging by the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS).
The increased computerization of U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, although it may modestly improve the quality of care for heart attacks, Harvard researchers reported in the Nov. 20 edition of the American Journal of Medicine.
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, in collaboration with biopharmaceutical company Novelos Therapeutics, was awarded a $950,371 competitive grant by the National Institutes of Health to study two Novelos compounds–NOV-002 and NOV-205–for the mitigation and treatment of radiation-induced pulmonary injury.
Seiji Ogawa, PhD, of the Hamano Life Science Research Foundation in Tokyo, who discovered that MRI could be used to measure oxygen flow in the brain in real time, making functional MRI (fMRI) possible, has been named as a possible winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize by researchers at Thomson Scientific, the science unit of Thomson Reuters.
MRI may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, staging and treatment of diabetes, according to research in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.
The clinical competence criteria in cardiac CT specified the necessary training to achieve minimum technical competence in cardiac CT. By teasing data from the first cardiac CT board exam administered last September, researchers found that increased clinical experience correlated with a higher pass rate.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Instutitue of Technology and other institutions have been experimenting with low-frequency, low-intensity ultrasound to provide a non-invasive alternative to techniques such as deep-brain stimulation and vagus nerve stimulation, used to treat a growing number of neurological disorders.
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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.