Archive for the ‘Radiology’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The Baltimore Sun on Saturday examined concerns about the number of patients who undergo CT scans, which many critics consider "untested, overused, risky and a prime example of health care ruled by profit and fad, rather than hard science." Some experts estimate that each year, U.S. patients undergo between several ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
2008 Radiology Compensation Review -- The latest figures show a continued market demand for Sonographers, Vascular Sonographers, Cardiac Sonographers and Interventional Technologists. The number of General, Vascular and Cardiac Sonographer searches conducted by RadSciences Group increased from 47.9 percent of overall searches in 2006 to 58.5 percent in 2007.
The U.S. ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zotec Partners, a solutions firm providing state-of-the-art proprietary medical billing services and licensed software to hospital-based physician specialty practices across the U.S., is announcing that Utah Imaging Associates, Inc. (UIA) has selected them as their exclusive partner for their outsourced accounts receivable management. In addition, UIA will also utilize Zotec ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Concerns over possible radiation effects of CT scans detailed in a report last Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine should not scare people away from getting medically needed CT scans, as the scans play a critical role in saving the lives of thousands of people every day, according ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The independent Advisory Group on Ionising Radiation has published a report* reviewing the risks of exposure to tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Tritium is used in scientific and medical research and it also has various industrial applications. Following an extensive review of scientific evidence on the risks from exposure ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Computer-aided detection combined with MDCT improves radiologists' ability to detect solid lung nodules early enough for them to be treated without increasing interpretation time according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris, France.
"The comparison of a current examination with prior examinations is a time-consuming and ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
To make tumors more sensitive to the killing power of radiation is a key aspiration for many radiation oncologists. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered new information that leads them closer to that goal.
In an upcoming issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology, ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
For clinicians involved in radiation therapy planning, juggling the necessary tools for the task can prove to be nearly as challenging as the process itself. GE Healthcare announced a "proton package" on its LightSpeed RT16, containing the options a facility may need to conduct RT simulation and proton therapy planning. ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Diagnostic imaging has been one of the fastest growing areas of health care in recent years. Some of that increase can be attributed to the availability of improved imaging studies, but whether some imaging utilization may be inappropriate has been an issue of concern. Now a study from the Institute ...
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