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Delft Imaging Systems has installed its Odelca-DR digital x-ray camera system at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute in Cape Town, South Africa.
A single posteroanterior (PA) view is sufficient for tuberculosis screening of individuals with positive purified protein derivative skin test results, according to a study in the September issue of Radiology.
The State of Maine is planning to go live this week with a statewide EHR network, HealthInfoNet, which will connect 15 hospitals, three health clinics and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Research presented at the 2009 European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) conference in Barcelona, Spain, suggests that FDG PET is useful in monitoring response to antimycobacterial treatment in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and can direct alternative therapy in case of resistant disease.
In a pre-employment health setting, eliminating the lateral radiographs in the screening of patients with positive purified protein derivative results would substantially reduce radiation exposure without adversely affecting patient care, according to a study in this month’s Radiology.
Nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary infections, the rising number of immunocompromised patients likely to develop an infection and changes in AIDS-related thoracic complications are now challenging the medical system, according to a series of presentations at the 2009 meeting of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria, this week.
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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.