Dear AuntMinnie Member,
LAS VEGAS - This week's annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) continues, with presentations over the past few days on multimedia reporting and the value of health information exchanges (HIEs) for improving stroke care.
In a Tuesday talk, presenters from Maryland discussed their experiences with the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), an HIE that went into full operation last year in the Maryland/Washington, DC, region. The idea behind CRISP is to make it easier for images of stroke patients to be sent from community hospitals to a specialized stroke center, where a decision can be made as to whether they should be transferred for endovascular clot retrieval therapy.
The project is going well so far, with the number of repeat imaging studies going down and with patients getting treatment faster. Learn more by clicking here.
We are also posting Facebook Live videos from HIMSS 2018. In our video from day 1, we talk to Jef Williams from Paragon Consulting Partners for his impressions of the meeting, while our day 2 video includes an appearance by Steve Holloway of Signify Research.
Race matters for breast screening
In our Women's Imaging Community, we're highlighting a study published March 7 in JAMA Surgery that found differences in cancer diagnoses for women of color versus women who are white.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital found that more black and Hispanic women presented with advanced-stage disease, among other results. They suggest that breast screening guidelines should take race into account in addition to age. Get the rest of the story by clicking here, or visit our Women's Imaging Community at women.auntminnie.com.
3D-printed CT phantoms
Finally, visit our Advanced Visualization Community for a new article on a study presented at last week's European Congress of Radiology. Researchers from Germany developed a 3D printing technique for creating realistic CT phantoms to help simulate CT-guided procedures. Find out how well it worked by clicking here, or visit the Advanced Visualization Community at av.auntminnie.com.
