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ISMRM: Communication, multidisciplinary engagement key to pediatric MRI

AuntMinnie

Communication and engagement with child-life specialists are a couple of factors in successful MR imaging for young children, according to research presented May 4 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting in Singapore.

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ECR: Communication key to better imaging of elderly patients

AuntMinnie

In his presentation, Uffe LW Jakobsen from UCL University College in Odense, Denmark, outlined strategies for radiologists to better communicate with elderly patients by treating them like any other patient and forming relationships with them. Doing this can help patients have more confidence in balancing during exams.

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Imaging technology captures how neurons communicate with new clarity

Medical Xpress: Radiology

For the first time, scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) used advanced imaging technology at the SickKids Nanoscale Biomedical Imaging Facility to reveal the atomic structure of an enzyme that neurons use to communicate.

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Some communication platforms bring more disruptions than improvements to workflows

Health Imaging

A new analysis suggests that physicians who utilize secure messaging platforms for workplace communications might also spend more time taking calls.

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Maximize Your Radiology Center’s Performance With Specialized Scheduling

Patient-centric scheduling can only be achieved through optimized radiology workflows, effective communications between staff and physicians, and, of course, through specialized schedulers. In this guide, we’ll take you through a step-by-step process to transform your radiology center into a high-performance hub of medical imaging.

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Is your equipment helping or hurting patient communication?

AuntMinnie

A critical element of care can suffer on account of this pressure: patient communication. Effective patient communication is already a topic of concern in radiology. The systems technologists rely on to do their job directly impact how and when they communicate with patients -- for better or for worse.

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Incidental finding characteristics that warrant communication

Health Imaging

Three factors are associated with true high-risk findings—imaging protocols for aortic valve implantation planning, imaging area, and cardiology department orders.