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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Embedded in the many data sets that comprise it, Big Data may provide an understanding of how health care can be improved. But because its volumes of...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
What’s going on with MRI? Once the darling of medical imaging, MRI had fallen on hard times. But those times didn’t last.
After years of growing...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
See Possibilities Together is the theme for the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 105th meeting and scientific assembly, and this year...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Ubiquity is a great advantage of the cloud. Its pervasiveness allows data access from anywhere on the network. But just having the data available is...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Eventually the future moves into the past, and we move on. But some of us wax nostalgic. Soft-copy reading deserves a bit of that.
For those who don’...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
When it comes to listing needs, patient safety ranks at the top. Just ask an imaging administrator.
“There is no way we can provide good quality...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
Breast cancer has affected our patients, our mothers, our sisters, our colleagues, our friends … and ourselves. In this issue, we help support the...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
If applied well, the cloud can boost efficiency, cost savings, healthcare delivery, even security. So compelling are its advantages that the cloud is...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
People who live in rural America may deserve the same quality healthcare as anyone living in the U.S., but it is not always immediately available.
At...
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...
