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NewsMoney-saving imaging CDS program gets large-scale deployment
A clinical decision support pilot program in Minnesota has proved so successful at reducing utilization of expensive imaging diagnostics that it will be rolled out statewide and made available to Read more...
U of Pittsburgh patient data exposedThe University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is recovering this week from a public relations storm which blew up when it was discovered that patient-specific information was online and freely available. The data, which included information on 80 patients, was first posted online in 2005, when a faculty member made a presentation on integrating multimedia into medical records. As part of the presentation, the now ex-faculty member had posted screen shots of the e-radiology … Read more...Case study: FL hospital goes all-digitalWhen Baptist Health South Florida set plans to rebuild Homestead Hospital, execs decided to go first class. The new 120-bed facility, which is costing Baptist $135 million, replaces an aged, overcrowded building with little capacity to survive the region's occasionally violent hurricanes. In addition to being built to withstand a Category 5 storm, the new facility is designed with IT in mind. Features will include a direct connection between radiology department and the rest of the … Read more...SPOTLIGHT: Building the hospital of the futureIn the old days, community hospitals had small rooms, bleak decor and twisty, hard-to-navigate hallways. But this time around, the planners behind Kentucky's Norton Brownsboro hospital are rethinking traditional hospital designs. After visiting other facilities, consulting with architects and collecting focus-group feedback, they decided to build a bigger, brighter and friendlier facility that meets the demands of today's retail-oriented patients. When the $146 million, 127-bed facility … Read more...ALSO NOTED: Data mining tools boost productivity; Hawaii advances telemedicine program; and much more...> Intel designs mobile platform for health industry. Article > Phoenix steps up telemedicine program. Article > Elsevier enhances EMR offering. Item > Data mining tools boost radiology department productivity. … Read more...Mo. hospital chain builds tech-friendly outpostAt St. Luke's Hospital East--Lee's Summit (Mo.), IT administrators are leveraging digital picture archiving and voice recognition transcription software--among other tools--to allow ER physicians to view X-rays on a computer and read the radiologist's dictated report before the patient has returned from the radiology department. Nurses are paged when a patient's EKG is abnormal, and are reachable over the wireless network. Cardiac patient are monitored over the network by a central unit … Read more... | Press ReleasesGE Healthcare Helps Radiologists Connect and CollaborateNew Suite of Advanced Visualization Applications Seamlessly Delivered on One PACS Desktop CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today at RSNA 2011, GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) announced a leap forward in radiology Read more >> Mission-Critical Innovation Awards to University Hospitals using Sectra's IT SolutionSHELTON, Connecticut, November 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals in Cleveland (UH), has been announced the winner in the category "Humanitarian/Environmental Impact" in the Read more >> eMix to be Focus of Radiologists’ Talk at RSNAPodium Presentation Will Focus on Physicians’ Experience of Cloud-Based Sharing of Medical Data Sharing SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The benefits of using a cloud-based service to share medical Read more >> GE Healthcare Unveils Ultra-Low Dose CT Technology with Profound Image ClarityNow available in the U.S., GE’s breakthrough CT imaging technology, Veo, may help physicians accurately diagnose with high image clarity at previously unattainable low dose levels WAUKESHA, Wis.--( Read more >> Magellan Launches New Website and Apps to Help Consumers Track Radiation Exposure from Diagnostic ImagingRadiation Calculator tools available online and for Apple mobile devices AVON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Scientific advances in diagnostic imaging have provided Americans with more tools than ever to Read more >> |
