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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.
Computer-assisted detection developer Riverain Medical has formed a partnership with Canadian medical imaging distributor, Christie Group.
On-demand chest radiographs for mechanically ventilated intensive care patients, instead of daily radiographs, can reduce costs and decrease radiation exposure without compromising patient care or safety, according to a study published online Nov. 4 in the Lancet.
Health officials in New Brunswick are conducting an external quality review of radiology procedures performed by Bhagwan Jain, MD, in that province between 2006 and 2009, after an earlier review of the radiologist’s work “revealed certain irregularities.”
An automated electronic system that screens intubated ICU trauma patients for acute lung injury (ALI) based on chest x-ray reports and arterial blood gas results is sufficiently accurate to identify many early cases of ALI, according to a single-center validation study in the July/August issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Written by Gina Narcisi
Ventilation perfusion (VQ) scanning provides good diagnostic value in excluding pulmonary embolism (PE) during pregnancy, and may be utilized as a first line investigation for the condition, according to a study presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference in Chicago earlier this month.
Shimadzu of Kyoto Japan, and EDDA Technology of Princeton, N.J., have entered into a business partnership for digital chest x-ray computer-aided detection (CAD).
Researchers using CT scans have found that patients with severe cases of the H1N1 virus are at risk for developing severe complications, including pulmonary emboli, according to a study to be published online today in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
PET/CT can be used to diagnose lung cancer in a “fast-track” setting, according to a study published in the October issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
Patients who undergo lung cancer screening with low-dose CT are at high risk for receiving false-positive results, according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study presented Saturday at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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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.