Again there were some great guesses for May's image! This time we did receive correst responses. So, what was it? The subject of last month's image was a slice of swiss cheese. Congratulations to Alexander Schumm, this month's winner! Though several people correctly identified the subject
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Last summer we conducted a survey asking the question, “Who is responsible for clinical data storage in hospitals today?” We asked for your participation in this study, and the results are in! We asked healthcare professionals—radiology administrators, PACS administrators, IT professionals, and purchasing professionals—to tell us
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It’s Spring, and time to start planting seeds in the garden. At home that means flowers, vegetables and herbs. At work it can only mean one thing – R&D. R&D is critical for any healthcare organization, and ours is no different. In fact, it is why
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A recent CapSite study[1] revealed that some 20 percent of U.S. healthcare organizations will be replacing their PACS either this year or next. As with any IT system replacement there are many factors to be considered, ranging from physician and department workflow to revenue cycles
Read MoreJohn Olson, MD, Chief of Neurosurgery, Heartland Regional Medical Center, talked with us about his experience using the CARESTREAM DRX-Mobile Retrofit Kit in the operating room. He found that the rapid access to images can save as much as 20 minutes during each surgery - which
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At the beginning of April we posted our first in a new monthly series of Image Challenges. We got some great guesses, but no one correctly identified the subject of the x-ray! So the question remains - What is it? April's radiology image was chewing gum
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It’s not every day that you can do something that’s good for your patients, good for your career, and good for your spirit. Attending the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Postgraduate Course, May 18-21, 2011, just may be one of those times. This biennial program—which alternates
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As an addition to our podcast series around the topic of meaningful use in radiology, we spoke with Dr. Roger Eng, MD, Chairman of Radiology, Chinese Hospital, and President of Golden Gate Radiology Medical Group. Dr. Eng highlights the opportunities and challenges for radiologists that wish to compliance
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Our Radiology Image Challenge is back for 2011! Image Challenge veterans know that this is one of our readers' favorites - and ours too - so we've made this fun challenge into a monthly series. You'll have all month to identify the subject in our
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A few weeks ago, I returned from attending the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. I've been covering this meeting as a journalist since 1995, and it's been gratifying to see ECR evolve from a sleepy, biennial show lost in the shadow of the
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At our facility, every woman who has a mammogram gets an immediate diagnosis as part of her office visit. We believe in delivering real-time results because it eases our patients’ fears. Many come in for a mammogram because a friend or family member has been
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--WN9mFlIIo] With the dust now settled from ECR 2011, we offer this video interview from the Carestream booth, featuring Drs. Thomas Lehnert, MD and Thomas Vogl, MD, University of Frankfurt, Germany. A recent study comparing workflow productivity of wireless digital radiography (DR) detectors with traditional computed radiography (CR)
Read MoreNicole Peters, M.D., Attending ER Physician at York Memorial Hospital, discusses the impact that the DRX-1 detector makes on their imaging workflow in the Emergency Room.
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Tracking mammography outcome data has changed dramatically over the last 30 years. We used to simply ask… benign or malignant, how small and what type? This level of generality in mammography screening is long gone. In its wake, we have dozens, even hundreds, of data points
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Guest post: Dr. Thomas Lehnert, MD Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Frankfurt, Germany It’s well known that the immediate image capture provided by digital radiography (DR) delivers enhanced productivity when compared to film imaging and even computed radiography (CR). Less familiar are the precise
Read MoreGuest post: Emily Crane, Research Director, KLAS Recently Newsweek ran a story proposing that digital mammography has no added benefit to plain film mammography for women 65 years of age and upward. I had a very strong emotional reaction to this story initially given the large
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Guest Post: Brian Casey, Editor in Chief, AuntMinnie.com A new report was published this week that probably isn't a big surprise to anyone: The volume of medical imaging services paid for within the Medicare system dropped in 2009, the first such drop in 11 years. [caption id="attachment_1071"
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