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How to comply with CMS's CT radiation dose measure

AuntMinnie

Administered CT radiation doses are highly variable across patients, radiologists, and hospitals throughout the U.S. 1 Some patients receive excessive radiation doses without diagnostic benefit, needlessly increasing their personal risk of developing cancer. 2 Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD. Marc Kohli, MD.

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Alara offers free software for MPFS quality measure compliance

AuntMinnie

Alara Imaging is offering free HIPAA and SOC-II certified software to help physicians and health systems comply with a new radiation dose quality measure included in the U.S. The measure provides a standardized method for monitoring radiation dose across patients and facilities, Smith-Bindman said. CMS published the rule on November 2.

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CEM has slightly higher mean glandular dose than DBT, mammography

AuntMinnie

The team evaluated a total of 764 breasts (383 left, 381 right) and gathered MGD and BI-RADS data from DICOM metadata and radiology reports. The study authors highlighted that the corresponding effective dose values in the study are well below annual background radiation exposure in the U.S., Median MGD (Breast density category B) 4.01

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ECR: Integrating AI into radiology workflows benefits the environment

AuntMinnie

Imaging360 components the company used included HL7, DICOM, and business intelligence modules; data from mobile and static CT and MRI scanners were also incorporated from multiple sites across England. Radiation doses decreased from 500 mGy.cm to 350 mGy.cm.

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Mirion Medical Introduces Instadose VUE Dosimeter at Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting

Imaging Technology

Featured for ec² at RSNA in booth #2101, Numa software provides innovative DICOM and HL7 workflow and communications solutions to meet the specific needs of nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, Radiopharmacies, PET and PET/CT departments. "We are thrilled to welcome ec2 Software Solutions to our medical family of solutions, further expanding and (..)

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Surprising Improved Productivity with Ultrasound Worksheets

Imorgon Medical

Transferring Measurements and DICOM SR DICOM Structured Reporting (DICOM SR) provides a standardized format for transferring measurements, allowing applications like Imorgon to receive measurements from different ultrasound vendors and accurately incorporate them into reporting packages [ 3 ]. A study conducted by Nordin et al.

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Surprising Improved Productivity with Ultrasound Worksheets

Imorgon Medical

Transferring Measurements and DICOM SR DICOM Structured Reporting (DICOM SR) provides a standardized format for transferring measurements, allowing applications like Imorgon to receive measurements from different ultrasound vendors and accurately incorporate them into reporting packages [ 3 ]. A study conducted by Nordin et al.