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AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

AuntMinnie

"Our findings support the widely held notion that HIE can reduce redundant medical services and thereby produce cost savings," wrote lead author Eric Lammers, PhD, and colleagues in the journal Medical Care (December 26, 2013). As a result, the researchers sought to assess whether HIE adoption could lead to a decline in repeat imaging in EDs.

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, October 2022

AJNR

The institution’s prospective Gamma Knife (GK) SRS registry was queried to identify patients treated with GKRS for ≥ 25 cumulative BMs between June 2013 and April 2020. Of the patients with radiographically proven adverse radiation effects (AREs; 15%), 4 were symptomatic.

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