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Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.
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.
The combination of MR imaging and mammography can provide a cost-effective way of improving life expectancy for women who have an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study published online today in the March issue of Radiology.
A technique involving the combination of adenosine perfusion CT imaging and cardiac CT angiography adds incremental value in the detection of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) for high-risk individuals, according to the results of a study published in the February issue of Radiology.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent letters to 31 U.S. hospitals asking about their experiences in implementing health IT under the $19 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). He is seeking to ensure the “effective and efficient use of taxpayer money” in implementing health IT, such as computerized provider order entry systems and EHRs.
Written by Lisa Fratt
CHICAGO--Information technology is essential to radiology practices because of their complex data and workflow. In addition, the use of IT improves efficiency and quality, reduces costs and opens doors to new services, according to Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chair of radiology and informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Boston, who spoke at the annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting on Monday.
Radiologists were twice as likely to recommend additional imaging in diagnostic reports in 2008 than they were in 1995, based on a single-center study in the November issue of Radiology.
Written by Jeff Byers
Representatives of two of the three data and disease management Medicare Demonstration Programs that did not get cancelled discussed their programs' success strategies at the sixth annual Connected Health Symposium last week in Boston.
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.
The integration of quality control (QC) procedures for image and data integrity in a digital environment not only improves patient care, it reduces both professional and administrative costs to a medical imaging practice.
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Merge Healthcare and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have initiated a partnership to create a testing environment for the company’s new mobile healthcare technologies.
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).
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.
Written by Justine Cadet
CHICAGO—The recent recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force limiting breast cancer screening for women in various age groups, as well as the frequency of those exams, ignited a flurry of criticism by a panel of breast imaging experts, hosted by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) on Wednesday morning at their annual scientific sessions.
Written by Lisa Fratt
CHICAGO--Modification of the order entry workflow can change physician behavior and result in fewer low-yield imaging orders, shared Vartan Vartanians, MD, clinical research associate at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Boston during a scientific session at the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) meeting.
Health IT is taking a central role in the current healthcare debate, according to a report published by the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, George Washington University Medical Center and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center in Boston has purchased four radiation therapy treatment systems from Elekta.
Adenosine stress CT can identify stress-induced myocardial perfusion defects with diagnostic accuracy comparable to SPECT, with similar radiation dose and the advantage of providing information on coronary stenosis, according to a study in the Sept. 15 issue of the Journal of American College of Cardiology.
MRI may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, staging and treatment of diabetes, according to research in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.
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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.