Oncology clinicians may soon have hundreds of biomarker tests available to them to assist in developing personalized cancer treatments, but some healthcare professionals believe that novel funding approaches for biomarker tests’ studies—a systematic process to move biomarker tests through regulatory agencies and a body of evidence supporting biomarker tests’ benefits—will all be necessary before healthcare system stakeholders accept their use.
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Wednesday, October 12
An $8.4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will enhance the infrastructure of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), a health information exchange (HIE). The grant supports research that uses data from INPC in comparative effectiveness benefits and harms of three drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease.
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.
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.
Written by Clint vanSonnenberg
Most patients believe radiology results are communicated too slowly. However, this provides radiologists an opportunity to increase their visibility and involvement in patient care, argued the authors of a study published in the March issue of the
American Journal of Roentgenology.
Franciscan Health System has implemented the health information exchange (HIE) company Axolotl’s Elysium Image Exchange service to provide access to medical images for physicians and clinical care providers that use the Franciscan HIE.
