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As healthcare costs soar and insurance plans require patients to pay more out-of-pocket expenses, physicians are put in the tricky situation of balancing healthcare at an economical price, according to research published in the November issue of the Journal of Family Practice.
The Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) has named Chirapa Puntawangkoon, MD, and Thananya Boonyasirinant, MD, as the winners of the third annual Young Investigator Award.
Adult patients with low-grade glioma had a better chance for survival if they received chemotherapy, in addition to their course of radiotherapy, according to new research from the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) presented this week at the Society for Neuro-Oncology's 13th annual meeting in Las Vegas.
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Most patients are dissatisfied with the efficacy of radiology reporting systems, according to a study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Fluoroscopy-guided lumbar puncture in infants has higher incidences of traumatic punctures in which red blood cells are introduced into the cerebrospinal fluid, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Neuroradiology.
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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.