Dear AuntMinnie Member,
PORTLAND, OR - Patient-centered care is all the rage these days, putting a new emphasis on value over volume. But how should radiology practices manage the transition?
Fortunately, attendees at yesterday's keynote address of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2016 meeting got some guidance. Dr. Rasu Shrestha of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center offered seven secrets for achieving patient-centered care.
Most of the tips will require a major change in the mindset of practitioners, from jettisoning the status quo to embracing the behavioral change necessary to truly take advantage of new innovations coming in imaging informatics. Click here to find out how you can get started.
For this and more coverage of this week's SIIM 2016 meeting, be sure to visit our Imaging Informatics Community at informatics.auntminnie.com, where you'll also find this article on McKesson's proposal to spin off its healthcare IT business. You can also follow the show on our Twitter account, @AuntMinnie.
Incidental findings on brain MRI
In other news, researchers from the Netherlands have found that nearly 10% of patients receiving brain MRI scans have incidental findings -- a third of which require additional evaluation.
A group from Erasmus University Medical Center studied almost 6,000 middle-aged and elderly individuals to find out how often incidental findings occur. They learned that 9.5% had unexpected abnormalities, with meningioma, a benign brain tumor, being the most common. Next up were cerebral aneurysms.
The problem is that there are few guidelines on how to deal with incidental findings on brain MRI -- an issue that will become more relevant as use of the modality grows.
Learn more by clicking here, or visit our MRI Community at mri.auntminnie.com.
