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The Human Cost of Cutting Medical Imaging
This morning, patients and patient advocacy groups presented a letter to Congress calling for the rejection of proposed deep and arbitrary reimbursement cuts to medical imaging services. If passed, the cuts would be an unnecessary hindrance to the access of these important technologies, especially in...
Published
Wed, Jul 07 2009 3:18 PM
by
goodwina
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medical imaging
Electronic Medical Records – Help Needed
Recently, I visited my internist for the obligatory six-month check up. In the course of this visit, he reached into my folder and pulled out a paper report of the results from the diagnostic laboratory that had run a battery of blood tests. Then, to help interpret them, he went back into the folder...
Published
Mon, Apr 04 2009 11:08 AM
by
Clark, Howard
Filed under:
medical imaging
Healthcare Information Technology (IT) – Challenges and Opportunities in 2009 and Beyond
The Economic Stimulus Package, contained within the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), is a hugely important domestic initiative. Within ARRA is a $19,200,000,000 appropriation for implementation of healthcare information technology (HIT) including $2,000,000,000 for infrastructure...
Published
Tue, Feb 02 2009 1:13 PM
by
Eaton, Richard
Filed under:
medical imaging
Justice Ginsburg's CT Scan
We're thinking about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today. Yesterday she had surgery to remove a 1-cm malignant tumor in her pancreas. She's lucky, of course. A centimeter is about the width of your small fingernail, so they caught it real early. How did the find it? During her annual physical exam...
Published
Fri, Feb 02 2009 4:42 PM
by
golds
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medical imaging
What's Ahead For Healthcare IT in 2009
With the election of Barack Obama, our nation will be confronting major, complex foreign and domestic issues, including a troubled economy, mounting budget deficit, a worsening housing crisis, unrest in the middle east and two wars. One of the most pressing domestic issues will be healthcare reform....
Published
Thu, Jan 01 2009 9:09 AM
by
Eaton, Richard
Filed under:
medical imaging
DICOM Makes a Difference
What? It's December 24, 2008 - Christmas Eve, and I just got a present. It's a book, and I can scarcely read a word of it. That's because it's a how-to book on DICOM* written in Japanese. Since I can't read it, there's no point putting in my briefcase to review on the next flight...
Published
Wed, Dec 12 2008 11:16 AM
by
Clark, Howard
Filed under:
medical imaging
Amazing Facts about DICOM
DICOM is the name of a very unusual standard. You won't be surprised to learn that this name is an acronym for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. However, you might be surprised to learn that the DICOM Standard : Has proved itself over a 15 year period. (This standard really works.)...
Published
Wed, Nov 11 2008 3:52 PM
by
Clark, Howard
Filed under:
medical imaging
Several Firsts in Yesterday's Elections
No doubt the most remarkable event yesterday was the election of this nation's first African-American chief executive. But after that, I'd have to say the thing that amazed me most was CNN's introduction of holographic television. If you didn't see it, check out two interviews -- one...
Published
Wed, Nov 11 2008 4:09 PM
by
golds
Filed under:
medical imaging
The Medical Isotope Shortage
Most people are not aware just how important a role nuclear medicine imaging procedures play in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. It is estimated that approximately one third of all hospital inpatients receive some kind of nuclear medicine scan during their stay in the hospital. Nuclear medicine...
Published
Tue, Oct 10 2008 9:52 AM
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Eaton, Richard
Filed under:
medical imaging
Study finds CT beneficial for colon cancer screening
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the National CT Colonography Trial , finding virtual colonoscopy (VC) to be a beneficial tool for colon cancer screening. The study of 2,531 asymptomatic patients, led by Dr. C. Daniel Johnson of the Mayo Clinic, was the largest...
Published
Mon, Sep 09 2008 1:09 PM
by
Zilly, Maureen
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medical imaging
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