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Creating a New IT Culture in Health Care
The pressures on our health system are real and continue to build, threatening the sustainability of our health-care system. For example, rates of chronic disease continue to increase, and access and quality challenges continue to be a reality in many parts of the country. Read More »
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Double Chest CT Scans Persist, New Data Show
Hospital use of double chest scans in 2009 barely changed from the previous year, despite clinical guidelines that say these CT tests should be used sparingly, according to newly released Medicare data. Read More »
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Open-Source Tool Enables Vendor-Neutral CT Does Archiving
Researchers in Boston have developed an automated radiation-exposure monitoring system that extracts detailed CT exposure data from image repositories. Thanks to optical character recognition (OCR) software, the open-source software scheme can gather data from virtually any CT scanner model, even older ones without DICOM-based dose displays. Read More »
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Radiologist Sues Hospital for 'Silencing' His Patient Safety Concerns
University of Iowa radiologist Malik Juweid filed a lawsuit earlier this month charging the hospital is trying to silence his complaints that the facility performs unnecessary PET and CT scans, particularly on children. He also seeks unspecified damages for racial discrimination and defamation. Read More »
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