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Nancy Ryerson, Staff Writer | June 24, 2013
From the June 2013 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Siemens’ program, Optimize CARE, sends a specialist to a facility to analyze baseline progress and help develop a logical workflow. Toshiba’s consulting program visits hospitals after three months and then every six months to check on progress.
CT is just the start
Around seventy percent of radiation in radiology departments comes from CT, but once facilities have that under control, it’s time to start tackling other modalities.
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“I think now that we’re getting some of those programs in place, there is some attention being placed on fluoroscopy which is sort of real time X-ray that’s used not only in radiology, but in cardiology practices,” says Kim.
ScannerSide has the ability to record dose from angiography, a tool Stony Brook’s Moore says has been challenging to develop because equipment from different vendors is dramatically different. Up next is digital mammography, he says.
Battin of DoseMonitor believes that cardiology will be the next area facilities will focus on. DoseMonitor supports mammography, DR and CR along with CT.
“Cardiology isn’t the biggest in terms of volume, but they certainly make a lot of dose,” says Battin.
Regardless of the modality being monitored, experts stress the fact that implementing one new piece of technology isn’t enough to make a big enough change.
“You get to a certain level of dose reduction and then you keep driving the limits across the entire enterprise,” says Toshiba’s Misra. “Dose reduction is a journey, not one event.”
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