The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has released its ombudsman report for 2011, the first year the office’s electronic tracking system has been used to facilitate record-keeping and trending.
Venture investments held strong and steady across healthcare in 2011, with medical devices finishing a close second to biopharmaceuticals in dollars invested and healthcare IT seeing a substantial increase over the previous year.
CHICAGO--Image interpretation will need to include quantitative analysis in the future, according to a session on Nov. 30 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
A new data network that integrates emerging research on the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data on individual patients could drive the development of a more accurate classification of disease and ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment, according to a new report from the National Research Council.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates payment policies and rates for physicians and non-physician practitioners for services paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in calendar year 2012.
While the original intent of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) provision of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was noble, nine years of congressional overrides have contributed to higher Medicare spending on physician services and left the federal government with a significant budget deficit exposure, according to a report from healthcare performance management developer MedeAnalytics.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
DENVER—As the future model of healthcare reform is not yet set in stone, those working in nuclear cardiology must first get a grip on how to modify the current system to charge less per service rather than compromising care with less volume, William A. Van Decker, MD, professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, said during a presentation Sept. 9 at this year’s American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) scientific sessions.
The FDA recently released its strategic plan for advancing regulatory science, including its intent to enhance the process for developing and evaluating new products and materials from fields such as cell therapy, tissue engineering, genomics, personalized medicine, advanced computing and IT. The August publication, titled “Advancing Regulatory Science at FDA,” outlines its priorities.
In the hot-bed of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) legal arena, two appeals court decisions were filed on Aug. 12 indicating the fractious nature of the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision.
In contrast to Canada, U.S. physician practices spend nearly four times more interacting with payors, according to researchers in the August edition of Health Affairs.
Interoperability and imaging IT company Merge Healthcare has locked an installation contract for its iConnect software at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Porter Hospital in Valparaiso, Ind., has purchased Merge’s iConnect image interoperability platform.
Health IT company TeraRecon showed iNtuition advanced visualization and cloud products at this year’s scientific meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.
Embedding clinical decision support (CDS) into PACS significantly increases the likelihood that radiologists will use the software, but integration must occur at the time of implementation, otherwise physicians may become loath to change their workflows, concluded a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
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.
Siemens Healthcare demonstrated a range of clinical and mobile imaging IT systems as part of its syngo suite at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), June 2 through 5, in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—IT has enabled radiologists to read a larger volume of studies from just about anywhere; but in the process, radiologists have often become more distanced from residents, who may render inaccurate preliminary reports without ever finding out their mistakes. Although technology has given rise to this cleavage in training, IT may also deliver the solution, according to a June 2 presentation at the meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Just as PACS liberated studies from their confinement to hard film, so CDs and cloud computing are enabling image sharing across institutions, communities and beyond. But as the cloud buzz grows louder, a group of presenters at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) argued on Thursday that the technology may be green—and ultimately inferior to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative.
Written by Clint vanSonnenberg
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The CT dose of an individual scan may be just a drop in a bucket, but at present, radiologists know neither the size of the drop nor the rate of emission, making dose tracking inaccurate and dose reduction all the more essential, according to a radiation dose safety session presented June 2 at the annual conference for the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
The explosion of social media has made social networking a popular and often beneficial platform for communication and marketing by patients and physicians; but healthcare providers may expose themselves to serious legal risks by engaging in social networking, the extent of which are not yet known, according to a communication in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
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