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The American College of Radiology (ACR) Foundation has initiated the Haiti Radiology Relief Fund, an effort that will provide Haitian healthcare facilities with radiology equipment, supplies and materials as well as physician and medical physicist volunteers, said the ACR.
The interventional radiology department of Kent Hospital in Warwick, R.I., has been put on probation for at least six months due to pervasive problems identified by the Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH). Also, each of Kent's interventional radiologists is being referred to the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline to determine if any disciplinary action should be taken.
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Radiography systems provider IMIX Americas and x-ray equipment developer Arcoma have entered into a cooperation agreement that will enable the two companies to expand their DR offerings within the U.S.
The introduction of a computerized radiology order entry (CROE) system with decision support capabilities into an integrated multispecialty group practice may substantially reduce the growth rate of high-cost outpatient imaging volume, according to the results of a seven-year, time-series analysis published online in the journal Radiology.
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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.