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Breast imagers join backlash against new mammography guidelines
By Rebekah Moan , November 19, 2009

Powerful political sources are lining up with radiologists and mammographers against guidelines from a federal panel that scraps longstanding policies for the timing of screening mammography. Even the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is distancing itself from its panel’s recommendations in the wake of criticism from many women’s health advocates and breast cancer survivors.

Coronary CTA triages ER chest pain patients safely, inexpensively
By James Brice , November 18, 2009

Cardiac CTA has matched the clinical safety of a standard emergency room protocol for triaging chest pain patients with suspected myocardial infarction while cutting costs by more than a third in a multicenter randomized clinical trial involving more than 700 patients.

Edge Medical to showcase DR upgrade, touch-screen
Diagnostic Imaging,  November 20, 2009

Edge Medical Devices will feature its Universal Retrofit Kit for digital radiography novel flat-panel touch-screen console for digital radiography at RSNA 2009 next week.

British health service twists arms to promote electronic medical records

Health officials in the U.K. have added an extra hurdle for patients who wish not to be part of a large-scale electronic medical records program, requiring them to appear in person to explain why they want to opt out of the system.

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System links fax to PACS automatically

Accessing patient information remains a challenge in teleradiology settings, but researchers have found a way to incorporate this information in DICOM image files.

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Custom CT protocol exposes Cedars-Sinai patients to excessive dose

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the prestigious Los Angeles healthcare institution known as the hospital to the Hollywood stars, has been jolted by an FDA alert indicating that perfusion CT performed during an 18-month period exposed more than 200 stroke patients to eight times the normal dose of ionizing radiation for the procedures.

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RSNA 2009

 

Welcome to the first of our RSNA previews. Here we provide a look at the most important developments on the exhibit floor. Watch next week for a look at highlights from the clinical program

 

RSNA CT E-Report

 

For the past several years computed tomography has been the most innovative modality in medical imaging. In this special RSNA e-Report on CT, you'll find articles describing some of those innovations and how they'll be demonstrated at the upcoming RSNA meeting.

 

Senate discusses possible imaging payment cuts
Diagnostic Imaging,  June 2, 2009
Senate report considers financial penalties for inappropriate imaging
Diagnostic Imaging,  May 1, 2009
New payment formula proposes Medicare cuts for high-tech imaging
Diagnostic Imaging,  March 5, 2009
White House calls for imaging preauthorization in budget plan
Diagnostic Imaging,  February 27, 2009
Hospitals lose out when imaging moves to private offices
Diagnostic Imaging,  February 18, 2009

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Self-referral provision may sugarcoat bitter pills in House reform

Some have blamed in-office self-referral for imaging’s fall from grace, alleging that overprescription of imaging exams for personal gain and the low-quality images that often result have tarnished the specialty’s reputation. Now relief may come from an unlikely quarter: healthcare reform.
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October 8, 2009
Are publicly traded companies and day reads key to teleradiology's future? Not necessarily, one exec asserts
Earlier this decade, when NightHawk Radiology Services and Virtual Radiologic became publicly traded corporations, it looked like the die had been cast for the future of radiology. Venture capitalists were prowling the RSNA exhibit floor looking for the next hot teleradiology company to fund and take public. There was widespread talk that the next step would be final day reads rendered from large and remote teleradiology operations.
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Researchers find temporary epicardial leads safe, temporary intracardiac leads unsafe for MRI use

Although MRI examinations in patients with retained temporary epicardial leads, which consist of electrically conductive material, could theoretically lead to cardiac excitation or thermal injury, such leads are relatively short in length, usually do not form large loops, and are generally not believed to pose a significant risk during MRI procedures.

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