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Cover Story
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Virtual Colonoscopy: The Road to Implementation |
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by Perry Pickhardt MD |
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The challenges facing widespread implementation of virtual colonoscopy for primary screening are significant but not insurmountable. |
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The Capital-Equipment Business Plan |
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by Richard Helsper RT, MBA |
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Understand the basic building blocks of a business plan before constructing a bid for capital equipment. |
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RIS Interfacing: The Happy Handshake |
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by George Wiley |
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When building customized RIS interfaces, an interface engine is the key to integrating on the enterprise level. |
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The Radiology Reality Show: Seeking Peak Performance |
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by Patricia Kroken FACMPE, Phillip Carmody MD |
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In the first installment of a four-part series, a radiology practice plans for excellence in business, and gives itself a deadline: 1 year. |
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Personal and Corporate Guaranties |
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by Robert Goodman |
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The author explains what they really mean and describes the real 'not imagined'concerns. |
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UCLA's Data Migration: Got the Picture? |
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by George Wiley |
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UCLA was a PACS pioneer, when few others dared to follow. Then came the modern era and the pioneer looked up to find its PACS obsolete. Now the hospital is undergoing the arduous process of migrating old archived images to a new PACS a task that is itself a journey into the unknown. |
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Lateral View |
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After the Fall |
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by Cheryl Proval |
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Now that the dust has settled from the dot-com bust, there is a growing recognition among health care organizations of all sizes that the right IT application can move them forward. |
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Guest Editorial |
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In Favor of Open Source |
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by Laurens Ackerman MD, PhD |
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A pioneer in imaging informatics writes on behalf of an open source approach in radiological informatics. |
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Imaging Technology |
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Digital Mammography: Current Status |
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by Martin Yaffe PhD, Roberta Jong MD |
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Advances in detector design and new applications are resulting in enhancements that may determine the future of digital mammography. |
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Imaging Cancer |
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Oncologic Imaging of the Liver |
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by Judith Bronson MS |
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The arsenal for detecting both primary and metastatic liver lesions includes ultrasound, multiphase MDCT, MRI, and PET. |
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Imaging Business |
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Reshuffling the Interventional Deck |
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by Melody Mulaik MSHS, CPC, RCC |
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Interventionalists must review new codes and guidelines to ensure accuracy and compliance in 2004. |
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STAT Read |
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by Arati Murti |
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Technology Review |
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May 2004 |
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| Special Section |
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Introduction |
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by Ray Russell |
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Backward Success: EMR Images Before PACS at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore |
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by Rich Smith |
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In electing to populate the EMR with images prior to a full PACS implementation, Johns Hopkins created a groundswell of clinician support for filmless radiology. |
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Enterprise PACS in the Community Hospital: Exeter Hospital, Exeter, NH |
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by Rich Smith |
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Visionary executives and the radiology department realize their goal of integrating a picture archiving and communications system with an electronic medical record that serves the growing enterprise. |
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Province-wide PACs: Prince Edward Island, Canada |
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by George Wiley |
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By implementing a picture archiving and communications system to serve all of the province's hospitals, Prince Edward Island advances the nation's mission for a national electronic health record. |
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Implementing Speech Recognition at Children's Hospital Boston |
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by Sharon E. Antiles MPH, Charles K. Hornberger MBA, Melissa R. Weis, John Speziale, Robert T. Bramson MD, S.T. Treves MD |
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Two years after a failed initial SR deployment, the hospital discovers the keys to success in a well-prepared rollout with a dedicated support team. |
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Experts here are available to answer all your questions!