Cyber security, HIPAA, securing medical information

Did you know that medical data on 20,000 people could be exposed to abuse today? According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS), that is the number of people whose protected health information was breached per day on average in 2013. While healthcare practitioners may not realize the value of the data in their care, criminals certainly do. Clinicians and nurses may feel wary of security measures that might slow them down, but there are ways to improve security that will not cost precious moments in an emergency situation. Being lax with security can have a long-lasting impact on all of your patients, not just those with emergencies.

P200 Remote Telehealth Blood Pressure Monitoring System

The Web-based dicomPACS MobileView viewer is one of many extension modules of dicomPACS vet diagnostic software.

dicomPACS MobileView 1.6

The 2014-15 U.S. News and World Report rankings of the nation’s Best Hospitals were recently released.

e2v will be exhibiting at the 56th annual ASTRO Symposium  in New York, Sept. 14-17. 

August 4, 2014 — A two-step decision tree analysis, incorporating Donabedian’s model, is a feasible process to evaluate and distill the many available quality standards, guidelines, recommendations and indicators in order to update national and international quality standards for radiation therapy, according to a study published in the July/August 2014 issue of Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO).

radiation dose management in medical imaging

Patient radiation dose safety has become the latest buzzword. With the emerging regulations and mandates, technologies and best practices, the radiation safety information pool has become convoluted with disparate and conflicting information. With numerous opinions and interpretations on radiation safety trends, best practices, regulation updates and studies, healthcare providers as well as the general public are experiencing difficulties filtering the true message in managing patient radiation dose away from the industry noise. Healthcare providers are constantly reviewing and assessing regulations, best imaging processes and the emerging technologies (automated dose management systems and dose management CT devices) promising to decrease or eliminate the chance of another sentinel event.
 
CT scan showing Egyptian mummy with calcified aortic bifurcation.
Mummy in a CT scanner.
Mummy CT scans, showing Mummy with calcification in the carotid arteries.
Mummy CT scans showing 3-D rendering showing a mummy with calcification in the carotid arteries.
Peruvian mummy whose CT scan showed a calcified coronary artery.

New research published in June issue of Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) show that there are no significant differences in the incidence or severity of atherosclerotic disease (narrowing of the arteries with fatty deposits) between ancient and modern people, showing that atherosclerosis is not just a disease of modern times. The journal included three articles [1,2,3] on the finding of the HORUS Study, which used CT scans from ancient mummies to compare arterial calcification caused by HORUS atherosclerosis.

P Series remote blood pressure monitoring system

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