Search Tag: reporting
2018 06 Mar
Cardiac arrest is one of the major causes of death worldwide. It occurs either in hospital and out of hospital situations with a common variable in the decision making process: time. Each year, according to the AHA (American Heart Association) statistical report , more than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests per year occur in the United States...Read more
2017 30 May
Healthcare organisations in the U.S. are responding to federal enforcement by reporting data breaches within 60 days of discovery, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer report. In April, it took organisations an average of 51 days to discover a breach occurred and 59 days to report it to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Nearly...Read more
2015 30 Jun
Todd Minnigh, an international radiology expert and a Vice President with Carestream Health, will give an educational presentation entitled “Leading By Listening: Helping Your Customers Be Successful” at the upcoming Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) conference, on Wednesday, July 22 . The AHRA tradeshow and exhibit will be held...Read more
2015 06 Feb
Improved surgical outcomes are not related to the use of systems which capture and report postoperative metrics. Hospitals which participate in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) did not differ from non-NSQIP hospitals in terms of better surgical outcomes, according to Mayo Clinic researchers. The report appears in the Journal...Read more
2015 28 Jan
Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have proposed a system that combines reporting, testing and enforcement regulations and allowing interim periods of off-label use for off-label drug prescriptions. The off-label use of drugs and medical devices in unapproved ways has long been...Read more
2014 09 Mar
A Swiss project in a multicentre private radiology clinic, which was presented at the European Congress of Radiology this week evaluated the quality of radiology reporting. Presenter Dr. Tarek Laswad, from the Groupe 3R, Réseau Radiologique Romand in Switzerland, emphasised that the aim was not peer review, but to evaluate the quality of the elements...Read more
2014 06 Feb
Respondents Said Vue PACS Offers Advanced Features and Ease of Use Carestream’s Vue PACS earned high ratings in MD Buyline’s Market Intelligence Briefing for Fourth Quarter 2013, in which users say the system is both feature-rich and easy to use, and they note that “Carestream is forward thinking with mobile access and products that provide...Read more
2013 28 Nov
Author Dr . Neelam Dugar Consultant Radiologist Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust Doncaster, UK [email protected] Key Points Radiology report quality is integral to patient care; Standards of radiology report quality must be defined; Teleradiology and local radiology...Read more