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The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) has partnered with the World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) to deliver sustainable diagnostic digital imaging systems to developing communities across the globe. The announcement was made during the 2009 SIIM meeting in Charlotte, N.C.
CHICAGO--Updating to ICD-10-CM/PCS is a necessary step in realizing the anticipated benefits of health IT, according to Sue Bowman, director of coding policy and compliance at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), who made a presentation Monday at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
In 2006, the U.S. population was exposed to seven times more radiation from medical imaging exams than in 1980, according to a National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) report.
Widespread health IT adoption in the United States is lagging, despite the promise of EMRs to reduce medical errors, improve quality of care, and overall cost of healthcare. While radiology is already reaping the rewards of speech recognition, many feel the technology holds the key for increased EMR utilization as well.
Errors in healthcare impact 10 percent of patients worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The agency has issued nine guidelines to aid healthcare providers in avoiding common errors.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in collaboration with other international organizations, is developing a series of measures aimed at strengthening patient radiation dose protection. The focus of recent efforts is a Smart Card project, to log how much radiation a person receives in the course of a lifetime.
The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) has cemented partnerships in the medical imaging community that will enable it to ramp up its efforts to bring digital imaging technology to sites in need around the world.
Definiens introduced LymphExpert, a new computer-aided detection (CAD) application at RSNA 2008 that allows radiologists to identify and analyze lymph nodes volumetrically and compare them over time.
The FDA has cleared Hologic to incorporate the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 10-year fracture risk calculator, FRAX, into its bone densitometer systems.
More focus on developing eHealth was the cry that came out of the 58th session of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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