The "extender bill" passed yesterday by the Senate and signed by President Obama includes a provision to delay the 21.2 percent physicians' Medicare pay cut (sustainable growth rate, or SGR) which was scheduled to go into effect yesterday. Carestream Health hopes and expects that the
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This is an increasingly common question in the field of Women’s Health, as more facilities and radiologists make the transition to digital mammography. As anyone who has viewed film and digital mammograms can attest to, there are inherent differences in reading digital breast exams that
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According to the Arab Health website, the Arab Health Exhibition & Congress is, by far, the largest healthcare exhibition in the Middle East, and the second largest in the world. I have personally attended this conference for many years now, and it continues to grow
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Medical imaging trade articles like this one, from Imaging Technology News, and countless other stories like it, give us a small glimmer of hope for the situation in Haiti. While it’s difficult to find anything remotely positive about the devastation and loss of life, we
Read MoreDr. David Channin of Northwestern University Medical School speaks to us about workstation-enabled radiologist productivity. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmchwMAGb7M] Do you agree / disagree with Dr. Channin? What are your keys to productivity?
Read MoreDR technology is increasingly being implemented and optimized for the emergency/trauma hospital environment. Due to the myriad types of patient exams and positions that emergency/trauma centers deal with on a day-to-day basis, and the obvious urgency involved, flexibility and efficiency are paramount. A great example of
Read MoreSo, another annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America has come and gone. The ghosts of contracts past fade as we await the transmogrification of handshakes present into the ghosts of contract future. We sit back and decompress a bit, perhaps loosen the
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At RSNA 2009, customers and equipment providers are talking about the same thing—how solutions can help improve productivity and streamline workflow to achieve lower costs. It’s been great to hear customers this week tell us that our solutions are delivering on these key objectives. Equally exciting,
Read MoreGreetings from Day 3 of RSNA 2009! We ran into our friend and CSH Board Member, Eliot L. Siegel, M.D., early this morning as he was headed to prepare for what sounded like a very interesting press conference focusing on new skin cancer imaging techniques.
Read MoreAs a follow-up to yesterday's salute to our colleagues in Chicago who are setting up the Carestream Health RSNA booth
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