Dear AuntMinnie Member,
The RSNA conference is less than four weeks away, and if you're looking for the best way to get a handle on radiology's showcase meeting, look no further than our Road to RSNA special preview.
Road to RSNA gives you a comprehensive look at the oral presentations, posters, refresher courses, and other scientific and educational content that will be featured next month in Chicago. Everything is organized in an easy-to-use format arranged by modality, enabling you to quickly find exactly the presentations that matter most to you.
We're launching a new Road to RSNA section each day for the next two weeks, with PACS and Women's Imaging as our first sections. You'll find them at rsna.auntminnie.com, and you can come back each day for a new preview.
ECRI's top 10 hazards
In other news, technology research firm ECRI Institute each year publishes its list of the top 10 hazards in healthcare, and, unfortunately, each year medical imaging figures prominently on the list.
This year is no exception, with radiology-based technologies landing at several positions. For example, CT radiation exposure to pediatric patients was listed as the No. 3 hazard, while occupational radiation exposure in hybrid operating rooms landed on the No. 5 spot.
The list shines a spotlight on areas ECRI believes need work to address dangers in healthcare. Find out what other areas are on the list by clicking here, or visit our CT Digital Community at ct.auntminnie.com.
Radiation therapy incident reporting
Finally, we all agree on the importance of incident reporting in radiation therapy. But are we all speaking the same language?
That's the topic of a new article in our Radiation Oncology Digital Community, where Canadian researchers discuss their development of a new taxonomy -- or classification scheme -- for reporting radiation therapy incidents. The authors believe that incident reporting is being hampered by the fact that many sites use different terms for describing incidents.
They developed and tested their own taxonomy for reporting and found that it worked pretty well. Learn more by clicking here, or visit the community at radiation.auntminnie.com.
