Patient safety is on everyone's mind today. In the lab setting, what types of errors are most prevalent in your opinion — what do hospitals struggle with the most in the area of blood gas testing?
There are basically four types of errors that can occur in the analytical process for blood gas testing: (1) specimen mislabeling, which means there’s been a mismatch of the patient ID and the specimen; (2) improper mixing of the specimen; (3) adding air bubbles in the sample; and (4) samples delayed in transport that begin to separate and aren't good for blood gas analysis.

 Things are looking up at Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center, Riverside, CA’s only remaining nonprofit hospital. Vital signs for core services — emergency, maternal-child, general and orthopedic surgery, and seniors — are strong, and getting stronger.
The 193-bed facility's staff has 900 full- and part-time workers, including 350 physicians in 42 specialties and subspecialties. Together they provide comfort and critical care to Riverside's diversified urban population of nearly 300,000 people.


One of the best strategies Greg Martin uses to make friends is to find his enemies — at least when it comes to fostering adoption of new technology among potentially techno-phobish clinicians, or those resistant to change. Martin, who is CIO at Arnot Ogden Medical Center in upstate Elmira, NY, placed value on recruiting skeptics into a major decision-making process and ended up with the makings of a fan club.

We live and work in a fast-paced world struggling in overdrive to stay organized as we accumulate more intelligence and quite simply, more stuff. It’s a world where attention spans are short, immediate gratification is demanded, patience lasts for only 15 seconds, bullet points, sound bites and video feeds suffice as in-depth content and plug-and-play functions as second fiddle only to the on/off switch. And only barely.

Well before flat-panel televisions became all the rage in the consumer market, healthcare facilities began singing the praises of the ultra-thin displays that tout eye-popping visual clarity.
And as the costs of flat-panel medical grade and general-use displays have dropped considerably, manufacturers are now competing for buyers’ hearts and minds on a host of issues such as image quality and connectivity. Today, sophisticated buyers are talking contrast ratio, pixels and processing speeds.

Medical diagnostic imaging is one of the fastest growing areas in medicine. Much of this growth is fueled by advances in technology that make it possible for radiologists, doctors who specialize in diagnostic imaging and imaging treatments, to provide quicker and more accurate diagnoses. When selecting precision LCD monitors to integrate into their growing diagnostic imaging department, radiologists at the Kootenai Medical Center chose Eizo RadiForce R11 and R12 monitors for their quality, accuracy and reliability.


OAK BROOK, IL – Systems engineers from 64 leading healthcare technology vendors, including GE Healthcare, Siemens, IBM, McKesson, Hologic, Misys, Philips, Kodak and [newly GE Healthcare-acquired] IDX Systems, convened in the basement of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) headquarters in mid-January to cross competitor lines and test the interoperability of their PACS and electronic healthcare record (EHR) systems.

As a successful, independent, three-site imaging center conducting more than 60,000 outpatient procedures each year in one of the most competitive regions in the country, Hackensack Radiology Group (HRG) is used to big goals and even bigger challenges.


What’s so intriguing about extremity imaging that Hologic is delving into it with such intensity and passion?
If you know Hologic, you know we are a company filled with associates that act with intensity and with passion. Hologic associates share a common goal – the desire to extend the lives of women through the development of technologically superior diagnostic imaging systems.

Breast biopsy rates grew quite dramatically during the latter part of the 20th century, and radiologists performed the majority of those procedures, according to a new Medicare database analysis. But as has been the case of late, radiologists did have to contend with some competition in this arena.
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