SAN ANTONIODeploying a methodical and mathematical approach to preventive maintenance (PM), even with an inventory of more than 72,000 pieces of equipment, results in more than 3,000 saved and redistributed planned maintenance hours, according to a single-center case study presented June 25 at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) conference & expo.

SAN ANTONIO--Nurses validated more than 500 million vital sign entries sent from more than 500 devices at the University of California (UC) Davis Medical Center in 2010, explained Ted Cohen, MS, CCE, manager of clinical engineering, during a June 25 presentation at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation conference & expo.

Eizo Nanao will produce new RadiForce diagnostic and clinical review monitors this fall.

The primary mode of death at a regional referral neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, according to a 10-year single-center study assessing the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the time of death, published in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Self-referring physicians are 2.5 times more likely to order imaging exams on patients than physicians without financial stakes in imaging orders, resulting in an estimated $3.6 billion in additional healthcare costs each year, according to a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

When Google pulled the plug on its personal health record (PHR) service last week, it set off an interesting chain of reactions. Reports and punditry declared that PHRs were dead, PHRs never existed, Google Health was doomed from the beginning and Google Health was too far ahead of its time.

Embedding clinical decision support (CDS) into PACS significantly increases the likelihood that radiologists will use the software, but integration must occur at the time of implementation, otherwise physicians may become loath to change their workflows, concluded a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The information seekers are a largely overlooked health population to whom to provide medical devices according to an IBM report, which provides advice on how to best approach this audience.