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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Time is brain. The longer a brain injury goes untreated, the higher the chance of permanent damage or death. And no ...

Time February 03, 2016
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Radiology led the way as the first medical specialty to demonstrate that digital medical records could improve ...

Time January 27, 2016
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

We have entered the era of the shrewd practitioner. It empowers the radiologist who looks ahead pragmatically; who ...

Time January 19, 2016
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Want to be a super expert in radiology? Join a swarm. A start-up company called Unanimous AI wants to use a computer ...

Time January 11, 2016
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

It looked bad a half century ago. Real bad. Police dogs lunged at protesters in Alabama; frightened Vietnamese children ...

Time January 04, 2016
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Go back to the early 1990s and you’ll come across a brilliant, yet fatally flawed, idea. It was called “Evolving Images ...

Time December 23, 2015
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

While I write a lot about medical imaging technology and how new technology can and should work, it is not often that I ...

Time December 22, 2015
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

Being an avid student of history, I am always looking for parallels and comparisons in everything I see. For this reason ...

Time December 21, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Machine learning is already more our lives than many people realize. Smart algorithms complete phrases and correct ...

Time December 17, 2015
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Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

As one of the largest medical shows in the world, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2015 meeting had a ...

Time December 14, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

There is no greater force today in radiology than the patient. Some might argue that financial issues matter more. But ...

Time December 02, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

During the eighties and nineties — the heydays of radiology — sexism abounded on the RSNA exhibit floor. Gone today are ...

Time November 23, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The 1990s were cast by myth and ambition. Taxi drivers wearing caps hyping digital radiography (DR); banners atop RSNA ...

Time November 16, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says, “Five beers please.” —One of the world’s geekiest jokes Things ...

Time November 06, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Not many pharmacists will call up doctors and question their choice of medication. It’s not hard to make a good case for ...

Time October 30, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

The idea behind clinical decision support (CDS) is simple — ensure that tests or procedures ordered by referring ...

Time October 23, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

“Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: One .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ ...

Time October 16, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Thinking horses not zebras frames the problem. Details coming from diagnostic tests give physicians the ammunition to ...

Time October 07, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

Providers under pressure to deliver low-dose, routine computed tomography (CT) can pick from the best deals ever. Want a ...

Time September 29, 2015
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant

They were once the kings of computed tomography (CT) — 16-slice scanners that hinted at coronary CT angiography; 64 ...

Time September 22, 2015
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