Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

Search starts soon for 2017 radiology-journalism fellow

Junior radiologists interested in branching out from clinical practice and into academic endeavors, take notice: An opportunity is open to learn medical publishing and continuing medical education by working closely with the editors of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Thanks to human nature, AI has its work cut out for it

If artificial intelligence is going to transform radiology and, with it, the whole of medicine, it’s going to have to get past a lot of wary people and their legitimate and/or misplaced misgivings.   

CT artifact-reduction software gets put through its paces

An independent review of four CT vendors’ metal artifact-reduction (MAR) solutions has shown that all four appreciably improve image quality. However, the reviewers noted additional artifacts and degradation of image quality, leading them to recommend carefully evaluating each software package’s algorithm case by case in clinical practice. 

AI and medical imaging march on, hand in hand

“Between artificial intelligence and the evolution of imaging technologies, the marriage of those two forces is going to be just out of this world.”

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Keynote speaker energizes audience with big laughs and life lessons

Professional speaker and award-winning author Christine Cashen had attendees at the AHRA 2016 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Nashville, Tenn., crying tears of laughter Monday morning with her funny stories and infectious energy.

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How to improve patient experience in real time

Eric B. LoMonaco began his presentation at the AHRA 2016 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Nashville, Tenn., with a surprisingly blunt question: “How many of you think your hospitals are perfect?”

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Scenes from AHRA 2016

Video: Take a look at the some of the interesting sights and people we met AHRA 2016.

Columbia researchers map out calcium-moving proteins associated with cancer

A new study by researchers at Columbia University describes a newly understood way that calcium gets into the human body. The channel is directly related to the aggressiveness levels of certain types of cancer, so understanding the channel better could help physicians find new ways to understand or fight cancer. 

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.