Most Patients Want Access to Their Medical Images
A new survey finds that patients are eager to use web portals to download and share medical images and radiology reports with their physicians — a tool that could be valuable not just to patients, but for radiologists as well. Web portals, or patient portals, are also tools the government is pushing providers to adopt. […]
Special report: Planning for the unlikely
In the last year or so, it seems the nation’s hospitals were besieged by a variety of high-profile disasters, including Hurricanes Irene and Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing. These events get at the primary challenge of emergency preparedness: trying to anticipate and prepare for the unknown. For more information follow this link to the DOTmed article.
CMS rule seeks to reduce CT and MR reimbursements
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued its 2014 rule for hospital outpatient services, and imaging stakeholders are not looking upon it favorably. For more information follow this link to the DOTmed article.
Are Health Information Exchanges Going Bankrupt?
More hospitals than ever are participating in health information exchanges, but some are questioning whether they’re worth the cost once government help runs out, according to a new national survey from the University of Michigan. HIEs enable unaffiliated health systems to share patient data electronically through different software programs. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment […]