Sunday, 5/5/02 -- 1:29 PM
New legislation lightens burden of some HIPAA requirements
The Bush Administration has unveiled new legislation that it claims will protect patient privacy without compromising the quality of patient care. The legislation is in part a response to a deluge of 11,000 comments received by the Department of Health and
Sunday, 5/5/02 -- 1:08 PM
SCAR attendance reaches 2000
Attendance at this year's annual Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology hit approximately 2000, according to executive director Anna Marie Mason. A formal figure won't be available for several weeks, but if that number holds, it will represent a gain of
Sunday, 5/5/02 -- 12:56 AM
Wireless revolution is here: Welcome to the good old days
Many clinicians, nostalgic for the good old days of hard-copy film, when one could hand-carry an image anywhere and view it wherever there was a light source, may not have long to pine. The wireless revolution is at hand, a SCAR
Sunday, 5/5/02 -- 12:29 AM
Insecure hospital networks allow easy access to images
Although most hospital image archives are protected by firewalls, breaking into them from within the hospital is still a fairly easy process, according to PACS consultant Herman Oosterwijk. Hospital data networks often have wall sockets in a variety of locations. Plugging
Saturday, 5/4/02 -- 3:08 PM
Enterprise-wide worklist management improves PACS efficiency
There's been a lot of talk at this year's SCAR conference about how PACS can improve a radiology department's productivity. Researchers at the Generations Plus/Northern Manhattan Health Network in New York City implemented an enterprise-wide worklist to increase the productivity and
Saturday, 5/4/02 -- 2:39 PM
Where have all the RTs gone?
Technologist staffing is adequate for general radiologic exams in only 40% of all hospitals, according to preliminary results of a radiologic technologist productivity survey released May 4 at the Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology. The survey will be published in
Saturday, 5/4/02 -- 2:12 PM
Panel charges vendors to do better with integration, design
Physicians and a radiology network director made a strong plea Saturday for more standards and integration that would improve the ability of different PACS to communicate with one another. Appearing before an audience of mostly industry representatives in a special
Saturday, 5/4/02 -- 1:53 PM
Network offers care potential, but security issues intervene
The experience of a Georgetown University group in setting up an imaging network to support treatment of a rare neurologic disease illustrates both the potential and the pitfalls of distributed imaging strategies in improving patient care. Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a
Saturday, 5/4/03 -- 1:23 PM
Can you say 'medical lexicon'?
Although the American College of Radiology has developed standards for diagnostic radiology reports that encourage "precise anatomic and radiological terminology to describe the findings accurately," a paper presented at a scientific session Saturday suggests that widely used medical lexicons are far
Saturday, 5/4/03 -- 12:59 AM
PACS growth demands new radiology subspecialty
With the increasing adoption of PACS and other computer technologies, radiology departments frequently need to create a subspecialty of radiologists who understand both clinical and technology issues. The Electronic Imaging and Technology fellowship program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN,
Saturday, 5/4/03 -- 12:37 AM
Multiple monitors lose favor in shift to soft copy
When moving from film to soft-copy reading, radiologists often want to duplicate the film environment with four or more monitors to show multiple images. A study suggests, however, that over time radiologists reading soft copy will rely on just one
