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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
— Yogi Berra
Yogi was right. Cars didn’t fly (at least not en masse). And space...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
Radiology’s history dates back to 1895 when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays. The very first image taken was of his wife’s hand; the “x” originally...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
The clinical needs of those who live in rural America and small communities are both simple and complex. A physician may have to explain a patient’s...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Patient portals can be a one-stop shop for patient access to health records and physicians. They can directly engage patients; provide access to...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Interoperability is not a barrier to the electronic transfer of medical images. Rather, it is a necessity. The trick is finding an interoperable...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Patient safety and operational efficiency are behind the development of modern contrast media, selection and utilization strategies — as well as...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Rural America does not show up in any atlas but, geographically, it accounts for 80 percent of the United States’ land mass, according to the...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
A lot of computers are being made without disk readers, an indication that this form of media is on the way out. So why does the medical community...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Contrast agents improve every kind of medical image from computed tomography (CT) to magnetic resonance imaging (MR), radiography and fluoroscopy to...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Hospitalization adds cost to healthcare. So, keeping patients out of the hospital should reduce health costs. But how?
The answer may be found in the...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
As we close this issue, the ITN team is packing their bags to head out to Colorado to meet with industry leaders and learn about the latest in...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Access to healthcare by rural-living Americans can be difficult. Part of the reason is the wide geographic expanse.
According to the U.S. Census...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
It is not surprising that pressure is mounting for medical providers to improve the care outcomes of their patients. Also unsurprising is that these...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
Imaging Technology News (ITN) recently took home top honors for best technical content for its team coverage of the topic of gadolinium, which...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
I miss the days when the difference between meaningful and meaningless was apparent; when the line separating relevant and irrelevant was easily...
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
This week, cardiologists learned for the first time they have been examining black holes for decades and did not know it. Many cardiologists and...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Sooner or later, the bad guys are going to figure out that healthcare IT is where it is at — and that imaging has a key to get there.
That key has...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
In this day and age, information technology (IT) rules. It shapes the way we do business and it shapes the way we live our lives. Topping this wave...
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
Healthcare today is largely woven together with electronic medical record (EMR) systems, which has led to the rapid attendance growth in the past...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Innovation is all around, especially at trade shows. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember. What’s different today is that the type of...
