News tagged with radiology services

Customer representatives mean increased efficiency in radiology

Adding customer service representatives to a computerized radiology workflow management system means improved patient and referring physician satisfaction and increased radiologist efficiency, an analysis of a program at ...

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created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Widespread use of teleradiology services could be declining

Researchers have found recent evidence that shows the growth of external, off-hours teleradiology services (EOTSs) has slowed in recent years, despite a significant increase in the number of radiology practices using those ...

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HP has open-source vision for 'orphan' webOS

The future of webOS - the innovative mobile software that three successive CEOs at Hewlett-Packard have struggled to make into a profitable product - may lie somewhere in the windowless rooms of a Stanford Medical School ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US nuclear material safe despite wildfire: officials

Radioactive material stored at the top US nuclear laboratory is safe despite a threatening wildfire which has closed the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) until Wednesday and forced thousands to evacuate, officials ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

CT scans of Egyptian mummy help Vt. solve crimes

A childhood fascination with archaeology and a chance encounter with a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy are helping Vermont doctors and law enforcement officials find truth in some of the most challenging of ...

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created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cloud computing expedites trauma care

An electronic, cloud-based approach to sharing radiology files with other medical institutions is expediting the care of UC San Diego Health System trauma patients. The method is currently being used to speed the diagnosis ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nationwide utilization of virtual colonoscopy triples, study suggests

Medicare coverage and nationwide utilization of computed tomographic colonography (CTC), commonly referred to as virtual colonoscopy, has tripled in recent years, according to a study in the April issue of the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

CDC issues updated bloodstream infection prevention guidelines

New guidelines, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) outline steps to eliminate bloodstream infections in patients with ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hippocampus smaller in veterans not recovered from PTSD

(PhysOrg.com) -- The hippocampus, a brain area associated with memory and stress, was about six percent smaller on average in veterans with current chronic PTSD than in veterans who had recovered from PTSD, in a study conducted ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hospital use of virtual colonoscopy is on the rise, study suggests

Despite the absence of Medicare coverage, hospital use of computed tomographic colonography (CTC), commonly referred to as virtual colonoscopy, is on the rise, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of th ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New non-surgical autopsy technique set to revolutionize post-mortem practice

A new non-surgical post-mortem technique that has the potential to revolutionise the way autopsies are conducted around the world has been pioneered by forensic pathologists and radiologists at the University of Leicester ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women get short shrift in many heart device studies, despite requirement

Despite a long-standing requirement for medical device makers to include women in studies they submit to the Food and Drug Administration for device approval, only a few include enough women or analyze how the devices work ...

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created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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