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The use of educational intervention can affect emergency department physician decisions on whether to use ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) scanning rather than CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for patients presenting with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), according to a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The New York City-based Bronx Regional Health Information Organization (BronxRHIO) has signed a contract for Axolotl's Elysium Exchange suite.
At first glance, it would seem that the pieces are in place for bringing digital endoscopy onto the enterprise PACS; however, according to a pair of healthcare informatics pioneers who have set themselves this task, there are still issues remaining to be resolved.
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Chest ultrasound is a viable alternative to chest CT in evaluating pediatric patients with pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Educating physicians about ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scanning as an alternative to CT for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolisms led to a 23 percent decrease in patient exposure to radiation, according to a study presented today in Boston at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society.
NEW YORK CITY—Through collaborations with medical institutions, including Aspetar Hospital, Qatar Foundation, Intermountain Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Montefiore Medical Center and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF), GE Healthcare at an event in New York City today launched three new healthcare IT initiatives focused on “high performance healthcare.”
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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.
When officials at Howard Memorial Hospital in Nashville, Ark., started drawing up plans for a new facility that opened in July 2009, Cindy York, the hospital’s director of radiology, had to make some decisions.