May 14, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Michael Green, D.O., has been helping to lead his radiologist colleagues forward towards automation-facilitated efficiency enhancement. Ultimately, he and his fellow radiologists in the Liberty Division of the Alliance Radiology group in the Kansas City metro area found a cloud-based PACS solution to be the inevitable choice when it came to access-anywhere imaging informatics.
May 14, 2012
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According to a study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, an EMR tool that tallies patients' previous radiation exposure from CT scans can help reduce potentially unnecessary use of the tests among emergency room patients with abdominal pain. When the tool is in use, researchers say patients are 10 percent less likely to undergo a CT scan, without increasing the number of patients who are admitted to the hospital.
May 9, 2012
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Indiana Health Information Exchange, Inc. (IHIE) is partnering with SeeMyRadiology.com, a cloud-based medical imaging platform, to make it easier for Indiana physicians and hospitals to access and share radiology images with the launch of ImageZone, a cloud-based medical image sharing platform that provides a digital alternative to the traditional methods of sharing radiology images on hard copy films and CDs.
April 19, 2012 John DeGaspari
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More hospitals are looking to the cloud as a viable way to store clinical, imaging, and financial data. Experts acknowledge its advantages, but caution it’s a step that requires careful planning and vetting of potential cloud vendors.
March 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
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CTG Health Solutions’ Marla Roberts, Dr.P.H. sees a lot of positives in the proposed rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use, as well as some concerns, facing healthcare IT leaders, as their organizations prepare to move forward into the greater complexity of the second phase of MU.
March 20, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Research studies and the healthcare industry go together like peanut butter and jelly. As long as medical research institutions have existed, there have been countless studies attempting to prove and disprove every little thing under the sun related to healthcare.
March 19, 2012
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Several recent enterprise imaging engagements have encompassed Pathology as an opportunity for digital image management, and they have afforded me the opportunity to gain a better appreciation for the state of the Digital Pathology market. From this experience, I am reminded of the similar experience in the early days of Radiology when the transition was made from film to digital images. The question is how similar will Pathology be, and can we learn from Radiology’s experience?
March 14, 2012 Joe Marion
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I am currently engaged with a number of clients in various stages of the acquisition of some form of enterprise image management application. In some recent conversations with several vendors, I am surprised at the number of “Request for Proposals” or RFP’s that these vendors are receiving from various facilities. As a result, I am rethinking the acceptance rate of healthcare providers for addressing image management in the enterprise!
March 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Most industry experts analyzing the proposed rule for Stage 2 of the meaningful use process under the HITECH Act, as well as many of the CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders looking at the rule, have expressed broadly positive comments about it, even as they have cautioned their colleagues about some of its challenges and complexities. One of those industry experts who has come away broadly positive after a detailed analysis of the rule is Mark Segal, Ph.D., vice president, government and industry affairs, for GE Healthcare IT. The Oak Park, Ill.-based Segal spoke recently with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland regarding his analysis of the rule.
March 7, 2012 David Raths
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Kicking off the 33rd meeting of the federal Health IT Policy Committee on March 7, Farzad Mostashari, M.D., national coordinator for health IT, was eager to address the study published in the March issue of Health Affairs that questioned whether investment in health information technology would lead to cost savings. Mostashari told the assembled audience that the only thing the study found was that clinicians with systems that let them view images ordered more images. “It is not a particularly surprising observation,” he said.
February 29, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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I can’t say they didn’t warn me. Leading up to HIMSS12, many people cautioned me about the craziness of HIMSS, how busy I’d be, how I’d hardly have a minute to breathe, etc. Even with these warnings and prior large conference coverage experience, I still found myself caught up in the whirlwind nature of the week-long conference.
February 28, 2012 The Editors
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Those who have had the opportunity to learn how to ski will vividly recall the first few times they took the ski lift to the top of the hill, got off the lift, and prepared to hurtle down the hill on two long pieces of fiberglass-and-aluminum hooked to their ski boots. There is that unmistakable sensation of both great exhilaration and anxiety, as one pushes off and begins the true schuss down the slope.
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