Friday, February 03
Pearls from HIMSS bestselling guidebooks on improving outcomes with clinical decision support (CDS) from its lead editor, followed by participants sharing their own success strategies. Goal is valuable, practical take-aways for all.
Wednesday, February 01
Opening Keynote: As "meaningful use" continues to drive the increased utilization of EHRs, many observers believe the biggest impact will be felt from the use of EHR data for purposes other than direct patient care: what is often called "secondary use" of data. The promise is enormous to achieve what has been called a "learning health system" for the U.S. Where is this headed in the future and what are the emerging fields and uses?
Wednesday, February 01
Come hear the challenges and triumphs of implementing the first national EHR. Understand how Singapore addressed this ambitious business vision faster and at a lower cost than anyone expected.
Wednesday, February 01
Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas, implemented an EHR in 11 months, going from HIMSS Analytics Level 0.5 to 6. Learn key strategies for success, along with implementation pitfalls to avoid.
Wednesday, February 01
The presentation will discuss the emerging role of chief nursing information officer (CNIO), both as a liaison between IT and nursing, especially optimizing the EMR for nursing, at a 14 hospital metropolitan healthcare system.
Wednesday, February 01
Technology is no stranger to Kaiser Permanente. The organization has attempted to deploy an EHR a few times, the last being successful. This session will tell that story, which goes back decades.
Wednesday, February 01
Join this session to learn how one Ambulatory Clinic preloaded 15 years of clinical data into its EHR, interfaced it to five hospitals, a reference lab, a home health agency, pharmacies and payors, and turned on clinical decision support. The result is nation-leading HEDIS quality measures, Medicare total cost of care, as well as documented improvements in safety, efficiency, and satisfaction.
Monday, January 30
Capital Health, a hospital network based in New Jersey, has inked a contract with GE Healthcare to install GE's Discovery NM 750b at Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell in Pennington, N.J.
Friday, January 13
BOSTON—Since 2003, fluoroscopy times and complication rates of ablation procedures have decreased; however, managing to keep patients atrial fibrillation (AF)-free post-ablation still needs work, according to data presented at a poster session Jan. 13 at this year’s Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium (BAFS).
Friday, December 16
Attendance for the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting was up 2 percent from last year, with a total attendance of 59,097.
Thursday, December 15
Written by Lisa Fratt
At RSNA 2011, the latest and greatest in radiology engaged nearly 60,000 imaging and informatics stakeholders.
Thursday, December 15
Intelerad shared its meaningful use (MU) certification plans and unveiled peer review functionality at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Sunday, December 11
Mach 7 Technologies debuted the Keystone Study Split Utility, a CT and MRI segmenting software, which can be used to reduce the time required to split multiregion CT and MR scans into anatomic regions that match the original orders from the RIS and reducing the time required for the newly split studies to be sent to the PACS, at 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago.
Thursday, December 08
While the 2006 healthcare reform law in Massachusetts, referred to as the Accountable Health Care Act, served as a model for national healthcare reform, a closer look at the state’s statistics showed it may not make an effective federal system, according to a presentation on Nov. 29 the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago.
Wednesday, December 07
lifeIMAGE, a developer of tools for e-sharing of medical images, launched its LINCS service, which allows physicians to share medical images and associated information with each other, with medical centers and with their patients, at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Monday, December 05
Iron Mountain and NetApp have teamed up to provide cloud data storage that can serve as an archive for medical data and provide disaster recovery services. The two companies shared a booth and showcased their partnership at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Friday, December 02
CHICAGO—Iterative reconstruction can significantly decrease the time and number of manual adjustments needed for post-processing of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) compared with traditional filtered back projection (FBP), according to research presented Nov. 28 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Thursday, December 01
CHICAGO—Although radiologists’ list of responsibilities is more than full, they also are responsible for managing and maintaining relationships with practice stakeholders, said Jason Itri, MD, PhD, of University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, during a session on Dec. 1 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Thursday, December 01
CHICAGO--Decision support technology can help radiologists improve accuracy of diagnosis, lead to more personalized medicine and provide an alternative to radiology benefits managers, according to a presentation on Nov. 30 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Thursday, December 01
CHICAGO--Though bone metastases in neuroendocrine tumors are usually sclerotic with increased bone volume, CT alone depicts only 43 percent of Ga-68-DOTATOC/DOTANOC-positive bone lesions, according to a retrospective analysis presented Nov. 29 at the Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
