Testing Your Health IT IQ?

The Medical Records Institute (MRI) has made available what it calls the Health IT IQ (HITIQ) Test, a free exam designed to measure vendors' knowledge about the complex world of EHRs and health information technology.

"This is a fun way for HIT vendors tocheck their knowledge and challenge their peers," states C. Peter Waegemann, CEO of MRI in a release. "We are working on a similar test for healthcare practitioners that will be released in Fall 2005."

The HITIQ can be completed by anyone visiting MRI's website and requires only a few minutes to answer the 17 multiple-choice questions.Your results are available immediately. The test's contents were derived from the organization's 7th Annual EHR Survey of Trends and Usage. Collective results of the surveys taken will be released can see them by attending MRI's Health IT Trends and Marketing Conference held August 22-24 at the Radisson Hotel in Boston, Mass.

To take MRI's Health IT IQ Test, visit www.medrecinst.com/quiz/HITIQ/hitiq.asp

Around the web

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.