Lisa Fratt
“It wouldn’t surprise me if in five or 10 years this procedure replaced awake [deep brain simulation surgery],” Jason M. Schwalb, MD, director of movement disorder and behavioral neurosurgery at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, said in an interview. However, Schwalb confirmed that the data to support intraoperative MRI as a complete replacement for the conventional awake technique are not yet available.
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Lisa Fratt
Results of two studies suggest that a new, investigational colorectal cancer screening test developed in collaboration between Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Exact Sciences of Madison, Wis., is highly accurate and significantly more sensitive than other noninvasive tests at detecting precancerous tumors and early-stage cancer, according to a statement issued Jan. 18 by Mayo Clinic.
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John Morrissey
The pace of progress in developing interoperability between medical devices and data destinations is influenced as much by well-articulated demand as by technical capability—and it’s up to CMIOs and other beneficiaries of such interoperability to push the issue, said Julian M. Goldman, MD, medical director of the biomedical engineering program at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.
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Kaitlyn Dmyterko
As reimbursement cuts loom, integration with a larger hospital system has become inescapable for some private practice physicians. That process includes the grueling task of transferring data from the practice to the hospital. While hospital integration may be valuable, ensuring that patient data are stored and transferred properly may be nothing short of a battle. Here is one practice's tale.
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Luke Gale
Clinical decision support (CDS) systems and alerts have the potential to help providers make sense of a vast web of medical knowledge, but most don’t differentiate between information that is urgent and information that may be less immediately relevant, alerting providers to both trivial medical concerns and life-threatening circumstances, according to Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, of the division of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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