on March 31, 2010 |
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Topics: Service Lines, Imaging, CT
My colleague Alessa Colaianni attended the 2010 FDA meeting on medical radiation in Gaithersburg, Maryland, yesterday. Below is her report from the meeting.
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Report from the FDA Public Meeting on Medical Radiation
on March 26, 2010 |
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Topics: Service Lines, Imaging, Health Care Reform, Market Trends, Strategy
With the House's successful vote yesterday on the changes to the reconciliation bill made by the Senate, we now have a final health care reform legislation from which to plan. I wanted to take a few minutes to give my key takeaways on the imaging-specific reforms in the bill.
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Reform and Imaging: At Last Some Clarity
on March 25, 2010 |
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Topics: Service Lines, Imaging, Utilization, Efficiency, Performance Improvement
Imaging overutilization has come under fire in recent health care reform debates from both a cost and safety context. Variation in utilization is one of the prime indicators fueling the debate. A recent study in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) which examined the variation in imaging utilization that occurs by geographical region provides further evidence.
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AJR Study Spotlights Geographic Variation in Imaging Utilization
