Written by Lisa Fratt
DALLAS—AHRA took a deep dive into healthcare reform and its impacts on the practice of radiology during an educational session Aug. 15 at its annual meeting.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
For 22 years, U.S. News & World Report has issued a report card grading the nation’s hospitals for patient care and acknowledging 50 hospitals as the best. This year, as in years past, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mayo Clinic have been chosen as top performers for demonstrating superior care in at least six of the 16 specialties. Cleveland Clinic reclaims its position as number one for heart care for the 17th year in a row.
Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) can significantly improve the documentation of indications for imaging studies, but more is needed to address overall poor communication of radiology order indications, according to preliminary research published June 13 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Cardiac CT offers physicians strong predictions of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in ED patients presenting with chest pain, supplementing clinical risk scores and offering a two-year MACE-free warranty period in the absence of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to the two-year outcomes of the ROMICAT study published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
NEW ORLEANS—ACC tackled tough questions associated with the use of integrated cardiovascular imaging and suggested that demonstrating improved patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness is quite complex but absolutely necessary. The specialty of cardiology needs to embrace randomized controlled trials to delineate the value of and roles for cardiac imaging modalities, according to a panel of experts in an Integrated Imaging Spotlight session held Sunday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
To achieve the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology’s (ASNC) 2014 goal of having the total radiation exposure for patients referred for SPECT/PET myocardial perfusion imaging to be equal to or lower than 9 mSv in 50 percent of studies, nuclear cardiologists must focus on appropriate patient selection and assessing protocols, radiotracers and imaging systems, said Manuel D. Cerqueira, MD, chairman of the department of nuclear medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, during a webinar Feb. 17 sponsored by the ASNC.
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