COVER STORY
By: John C. Hayes, James Brice, Greg Freiherr, and Rebekah Moan Informatics
ENTERPRISE IMAGING AND IT SPECIAL SECTION
- Integration of CAD with PACS breaks down barrier to its use
- Coding and billing applications cut down on staffing, expenses
Overread
- Findings blow whistle on suspected gender selection
- Google, it does a brain good
- Colonography denial leads to new tactics
- Cryoablation bests surgery for treating prostate cancer
- Case of the Month
- Report anticipates end to equipment purchase freezes
- Minorities often distrust breast cancer screening
- CT colonography also detects occult aortic aneurysms
- UN agency supports patient radiation tracking program
- Whole-body CT reduces trauma-related deaths
- New CT rule-out examination cuts patient x-ray exposure
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Perturbations