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AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

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They retrospectively accessed discharge data from the State Emergency Department Databases for California and Florida for 2007-2010, and then merged the data with information on hospital HIE participation from market research firm HIMSS Analytics. If all hospital-based EDs in California and Florida fully participated in HIE, more than $2.9

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The rise of theranostics: Part 2 -- Moving into communities

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Up to now, most Lu-177 DOTATATE therapies for the treatment of somatostatin receptor-positive neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have, for example, been administered only within the top 20-40 of between 300 and 400 sites -- larger academic centers like UCSF or private practice hospitals -- in the U.S., Hope added.