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It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so we’re highlighting an important aspect of care that doesn’t get enough attention: the availability of prior images. Although screening guidelines and breast density notifications have been getting the largest share of coverage recently—and they are vitally important aspects of detection and prevention—there hasn’t been as much emphasis on how to help women share their results with health care providers. Despite many well-catalogued drawbacks, CDs are still commonly used to provide patients with their medical images, even though most people agree that easy, accessible digital interoperability is far past due.
How does your institution provide patients with their images? Does it plan to implement digital interoperability in the near future? Let us know on Twitter and/or Facebook.
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Ready for a Makeover: Modernization and Women’s Imaging
By Cristin Gardner
Retrieving complex medical records, including imaging, is typically a burdensome process for both patients and radiologists. Disparate health systems don’t help matters. Patient leakage and competitive pressure complicate the challenge of balancing patient access with relinquishing ownership of data.
It is widely recognized that separate health institutions do not communicate well with each other when it comes to sharing medical data and images. Patients experience frustrating hurdles, are often required to duplicate efforts and jump through hoops because of confusing or outdated policies, and run up against other complexities that often lead them to give up and carry on without their medical information.
With technology at our fingertips and medical data access rights supporting patients, one may ask why it’s such a challenge to share medical imaging. Health care is notoriously resistant to modernization and dependent on outdated technology and complicated institutional processes that create data silos and challenges for patients.
The majority of health care organizations in the United States still share complex imaging records with patients via CD. Medical records may be complex, but the solution to this problem is simple: Update institutional policies for sharing medical records and adopt readily available technology to support a more streamlined patient experience. As a bonus, solutions that enhance patient access to data will bring many institutions back into compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
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Sharper Contrast
Radiologists continue their quest to elevate patient outcomes while minimizing risks. Contrast-enhanced mammography, a method incorporating iodine into the diagnostic process, fine-tunes sensitivity and dials down the quantity of false-positives. Read more »
Hot Takes
Technologies, procedures, professional societies, awareness campaigns, accreditation requirements, regulations—numerous factors figure prominently in the widening effort to reduce exposure risks for radiology staffers and patients. We’ll take a look at where things stand. Read more »
Data-Driven Performance
Harnessing a trove of real-time, actionable information and promptly delivering it where it is most needed, data analytics is having an effect that can be felt resoundingly in every corner of the modern radiology practice. Read more »
Facing Disaster
Health care practitioners must be ever vigilant to stay ahead of any unforeseen crisis. Find out what radiologists are doing to protect against uncertainties without missing a beat in the present. Read more »
Reporter’s Notebook: News From SNMMI 2019
Zero in on some highlights from the organization’s annual meeting and catch up on the latest industry chatter. Read more » |
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Satellite Imaging Technology Adapted to Cancer Detection
New research out of the University of Texas at Dallas suggests that AI, utilized in conjunction with hyperspectral imaging (a modality commonly associated with astronomy) offers considerable promise in the detection of cancer cells.
Superhero-Themed Program Lowers Sedation Rate Among Child Patients
According to findings published in JACR, ‘MRI-am-a-Hero,’ a recently implemented program at NewYork-Presbyterian centered on alleviating pre-MRI anxiety in pediatric patients, has been a considerable success, lowering the number of MRI cases using sedation.
Multi-Beam Data Trigger Insights About Underwater Canyons
Multi-resolution topography figures prominently in a new study out of California’s Stanford University that yields unprecedented detail about canyons on the ocean floor. The geological insights, the authors say, could extend far beyond our planet and enhance our understanding of other heavenly bodies as well.
Near-Infrared Wavelength Effective Against Pythons in the Everglades
The cold-blooded Burmese python has enjoyed a distinct advantage against hunters utilizing thermal imaging, but researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a near-infrared searchlight that promises to level the playing field. |
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— Andrew Siderowf, MD, MSCE, of the University of Pennsylvania, regarding an initiative to develop a radioactive tracer to target the elusive proteins alpha-synuclein and 4R tau, something that would be of inestimable value in the study of Parkinson’s disease |
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