Radiation planning for breast cancer relies on accurate delineation of the post-lumpectomy target volume as identified on non-contrast axial computed tomography (CT). Visible seroma, surgical clips and adjacent tissue are typically included when contouring the lumpectomy clinical target volume for radiation treatment. Radiation oncologists and treatment planners face challenges that can make clear delineation of the lumpectomy cavity problematic.
To understand the issues facing radiologists, it is important to identify the changes over the past decade that have transformed how radiologists are being reimbursed and the impact this has had on their jobs. Significant declines in reimbursements, followed by rapidly changing payment models and interoperability initiatives, are all coming to a head under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), one of two value-based reimbursement models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
Healthcare providers and historians alike are all too familiar with the images and inconveniences of the large, bulky X ...
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
The driving force of healthcare technology advancement in recent years has focused on making it easier to share information among all members of the care team — including patients — to facilitate higher-quality care. Allowing greater connectivity comes with a price, however, as it makes personal health information (PHI) and other personal data more vulnerable to those with ill intentions. Cyberattacks on healthcare institutions as well as data breaches regularly make headlines as various individuals and entities seek to use this information for their own personal gain. To date, providers of all specialties — including radiology — have had trouble defending themselves against these invasions, and they must improve if they hope to maintain the trust of their patients.
Is it time for you to replace your picture archiving and communication system (PACS)? Do you need a better solution? Our saturated market still has forces that raise this question across providers of all shapes and sizes. Legacy system deficiencies, disparate specialty PACS, the need to leverage a PACS for enterprise imaging, or even fearing the arc of success or failure of a current vendor can have those at system-level administration all the way to executive leadership wondering what path forward will provide the most stable, robust and competitive solution.
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In establishing the new Southeast Cancer Center (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), clinic officials not only had the opportunity to offer the latest care technology and evidence-based therapies, they were also able to create a seamless, positive patient experience that supports patient healing. Essential to implementing this vision was a single, unified and universal care management system (Mosaiq OIS by Elekta) that provides all members of the multidisciplinary team the information they need, at the moment they need it, to care for every patient.
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Thirty-three. Twenty-nine. Sixty-four. These are the ages of the breast cancer patients who have walked through the Provision Cares Proton Therapy Center in Knoxville, Tenn. With decades of life ahead of them, they face a cure that could be worse than their disease.
Carestream Health will demonstrate its new zero footprint Workflow Orchestrator that can enable greater productivity, quality and collaboration for radiology reading workflows at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Nov. 26-Dec. 1 in Chicago. These modules are currently available for order and are expected to begin shipping in the first quarter of 2018.
November 3, 2017 — A new study published in PLOS ONE demonstrates that Videssa Breast, a multi-protein biomarker blood ...
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
As healthcare in the United States shifts focus to providing higher-quality care while keeping costs down, workflow efficiency is a guiding bedrock principle for providers. From this standpoint, few technologies have demonstrated greater promise for maximizing clinical and operational efficiency than mobile digital radiography (DR). Putting digital X-ray capability onto a mobile cart-based system allows healthcare facilities to bring the radiology department directly to the patient, allowing faster diagnosis, and in turn quicker exam turnaround and discharge times. As the the technology continues to evolve, vendors have focused on improving battery life, durability and wireless connectivity to further maximize the utility of these versatile systems.
November 3, 2017 — The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently welcomed the organization ...
November 3, 2017 — Mach7 Technologies invites attendees at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual ...
Did you know that approximately one-third of all the data in world is created by the healthcare industry and that ...
The following is a roundup of a few of the major advances in ultrasound imaging technology over the last 12 months.
Achieving quality in healthcare demands a multifaceted approach that includes technology, education and professional ...
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Computed tomography (CT) continues to be a workhorse modality for radiology departments and its utility keeps expanding. Below are just a few of the ways CT applications have expanded in the last 12 months.
November 3, 2017 — Altamont Software Inc. this week completed implementation of CaptureWare at Quantum Imaging and ...
At the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 26-Dec. 1 in Chicago, Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. will introduce new functionalities including Performance Dashboards on the Exa Enterprise Imaging solution. Other recent enhancements to the Exa platform include non-DICOM data viewing capabilities and a customized workflow engine.
Young hockey players who have suffered concussions may still show changes in the white matter of the brain months after being cleared to return to play, researchers at Western University have found. These findings were achieved through use of sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques.
November 2, 2017 — Based on its recent analysis of the mobile interventional X-ray solutions market, Frost & Sullivan ...
Hologic Inc. announced that it will provide all mammography systems for the Dutch Breast Cancer Screening Program in partnership with Tromp Medical, Hologic’s distributor in the Netherlands. Under the tender, Hologic’s new 3Dimensions mammography systems will be installed in mobile and stationary screening facilities across the country, starting in 2018.