On March 2, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services secretary released a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing a certification program for electronic health records (EHRs).1 More »
For the past 15 years, most PACS have performed the basic tasks of taking in images, archiving them, sending them to workstations for display, and hopefully not losing them. More »
Efforts to interconnect information systems raise the possibility that different experiences from multiple sites might be pooled and the practice of medicine made better through a kind of collective wisdom. At the ISCT symposium, Sandy Napel, Ph.D., a Stanford professor of radiology and codirector... More »
What do you get when you mix contrast delivery with computer technology? Dr. Dominik Fleischmann, director of CT at Stanford Hospital and Clinics kicks off a session at the International Society for Computed Tomography conference starting May 18 on contrast medium delivery and image enhancement. He... More »
The last decade-plus has seen unprecedented development in all aspects of CT technology. Presenters will kick off the International Society for Computed Tomography symposium Tuesday morning May 18 looking at this evolution as part of the “Technology: Present and Future” session. More »
Douglas Blair, senior director of physician information systems at Mount Carmel Health System in central Ohio, describes its pre-upgrade practice management software as “essentially broken for us. My understanding is that it has code in it that’s over 30 years old.” More »
Remember the old TV show “Wide World of Sports” from the 1970s and ’80s? Who could forget that opening sequence — the one with that poor skier wiping out horrifically while Jim McKay, the legendary sports journalist, tells us solemnly that producers had been “spanning the globe” to bring you “the... More »
Haven’t purchased an EMR yet but getting ready to take the plunge? Let’s say you’re now preparing carefully your checklist of vendor questions as you whittle your prospects down. Here’s one you won’t want to leave off: ASP or client-server? More »
About 10 percent of the privacy violations tracked by consumer advocacy organization privacyrights.org in 2005 occurred in healthcare organizations. That figure jumped to 16 percent in 2006, and should be up another 5 percent to 6 percent this year if trends continue. More »
Nemishh Mehta and his wife Shilpa, both primary-care physicians, had long dreamed of working together in their own practice. The Bear, Del., residents had been working successfully in separate practices, but they were left cold at those offices by what they perceived as an impersonal style of... More »
