Clinical News: Page 991

Irish group fined for security breach over patients records
By Cynthia E. Keen
The Information Commissioner's Office has fined the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust 225,000 pounds for leaving unprotected staff data and medical records of patients in vacated hospital buildings.
June 28, 2012
CARS: iPads equal to workstations for 2D lung nodule detection
By Frances Rylands-Monk
Research from Italy shows 2D visualization of CT and MRI images on the iPad 2 can allow detection of pulmonary nodules as small as 2 mm. Attendees at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) congress learned that across different CT exams no such lesion was missed on the iPad 2 compared with conventional workstations.
June 28, 2012
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Carestream ships mobile x-ray system
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health has begun worldwide shipments of its DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray system.
June 27, 2012
Web-based model improves prediction of coronary artery disease
By Eric Barnes
A new Web-based prediction tool can help identify patients at high risk of coronary artery disease. The model, developed by 18 hospitals in Europe and the U.S., outperforms the most widely used risk models for predicting coronary artery disease in low-risk patients with new-onset chest pain, according to a Dutch expert.
June 27, 2012
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Incidental findings on CT lung screening offer benefits, costs
By James Brice
Incidental findings uncovered at low-dose CT lung cancer screening increase the overall yield of malignancies diagnosed from the annual exams for high-risk, asymptomatic patients, but their evaluation adds an additional layer of cost to such programs, Danish researchers have found.
June 27, 2012
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Siemens adds to ultrasound portfolio
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has introduced Acuson P300, a portable ultrasound system designed for use in a variety of settings.
June 26, 2012
Siemens announces progress with S1000 ultrasound system
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has completed the first installation of an Acuson S1000 diagnostic ultrasound system in the U.K. at the Liverpool Women's National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust hospital.
June 26, 2012
Bad radiology reports persist; new EU radiation rules; MRI of multiple sclerosis
By Philip Ward
June 26, 2012
Autoanalysis of clinical documents accelerates patient recruitment
By Finn Snyder
An ongoing research project aimed at routine implementation in late 2013 made it to the top ranks of the agenda at the DICOM KIS RIS PACS meeting, held near Mainz, Germany, last weekend. The project is financed by European Regions Funding and the Berlin Future Fund.
June 26, 2012
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CT audit highlights shortcomings of radiology reports
By Philip Ward
Information about the precise imaging examination and use of contrast are still being omitted from radiology reports, and some referring clinicians fail to include a clinical question for the radiologist to answer, an audit of CT reports has found.
June 26, 2012
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MRI with gadolinium oxide particles finds more MS lesions
By Wayne Forrest
The combination of gadolinium and ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide particles in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) reveals 51% more active lesions in MRI scans than gadolinium alone, French researchers report in the July issue of Radiology.
June 26, 2012
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