Among clinicians who ordered imaging exams during the Medicare Imaging Demonstration (MID) and gave no specific reason for placing the order, how many could have used clinical decision support (CDS) but chose not to? Was their rationale for bypassing the system reasonable? And how many were non-doctor proxies ordering on behalf of physicians? 

Can the deployment of decision-support systems cut overutilization of advanced imaging exams without doing harm to care quality? In so many words, that was the main question the Medicare Imaging Demonstration (MID) set out to answer when it began in October 2011 and wrapped up in September 2013. 

Last summer brought something of a media moment for mammography in the U.S. The spotlight shone on the star—3-D imaging for breast-cancer screening—after the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study showing that tomosynthesis, when added to digital mammography, is a natural at catching invasive cancers while exposing false positives as impostors.

Montreal, Canada & Edinburgh, UK – November 12, 2014 – Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in medical imaging PACS, RIS and workflow solutions, today announced that its partnership with Blackford Analysis has resulted in the successful incorporation of Blackford’s image comparison acceleration technology into its InteleViewer™ diagnostic viewer.

SAN DIEGO, CA – Harvard scientists, in cooperation with physicians from Cottage Health System and DR Systems, will be conducting a live study at the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting. The objective of the study is to assess Image Shuffling, a progressive reading method, relative to traditional side-by-side image comparison.

Boston, MA and Edinburgh, UK – November 11, 2014 – Blackford Analysis, a provider of software products that accelerate comparison of medical images, today announced that its software has been successfully integrated into a tool developed by Massachusetts General Hospital’s Tumor Imaging Metrics Core for its Precision Imaging Metrics system that helps radiologists and oncologists coordinate to generate clinical trial imaging results with enhanced efficiency and quality.

ClearChoiceMD, the New Hampshire-based chain of 10 high-end urgent care clinics in Northern New England, has installed digital x-ray systems and PACS in all its locations.