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Radiation Over Exposure Investigation Efforts Continue–Patients With Strokes Over Exposed

Finding the solution still continues and more patient stories are coming out with the effects of what happened to them when over exposed, with hair failing out, rashes, etc. One man was even judged by his co-workers as they thought he had some contagious...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2010 5:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, Radiology, Personal Health Records, stroke, software, Health, CT Scan, NIH, Audit Trails, radiation, Radiation overdose, Cedars Sinai

320 Bit CT Scanners Offer Less Radiation Exposure Than 64 Bit – New Technology Making the Difference With One Rotation

I know this sounds a bit odd that when we went from 16 bit to 64 bit, the radiation exposure went up and you would think 320 bit would be even more, but not so, we are going backwards now as the beam exposure in circling the body is less, so now more...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2010 1:32 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Radiology, Cardiology, CT Scan, Imaging, radiation, exposure, Long Beach Millers Hospital, 64 bit, detector, 320 bit

NIH Getting Involved in Radiation Overdoses – Planned Requirement for a Audit Trail to Track Patient Radiation Doses and Eventually Add to EHRs as well as PHRs, Google Health and HealthVault

As more reports on radiation overdose make it to the news, this appears to be an issue that needs some software attention , not only with the manufacturers but also a tracking system as a back up. If it is missed at the hospital or facility level...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 2:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, Radiology, Google, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, software, Health, CT Scan, NIH, Audit Trails, radiation, Radiation overdose

10 More Patients at Los Angeles Hospital Get CT Radiation Overdose

This time it is not Cedars but a hospital in the Glendale, CA area and a lot less patients, but that doesn’t make a lot of difference if you are one of the patients affected. It looks like a similar software type of issue with reprogramming. ...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2009 7:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, healthcare, Health IT, Patient Safety, CT Scan, Imaging, Programming, Radiation overdose, Glendale Adventists Medical Center

Cedar-Sinai Medical Center Gets Hit with Class Action Suit – CT Scanning Radiation Overdose

I spent a little time around one of these when I was writing some software to export calcium scores into a customized program I wrote for patient use in follow up and to help drill down and keep track of all the high score patients. There is regular...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2009 6:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Lawsuit, FDA, software, Safety, CT Scan, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Algorithms, radiation, screening, brain scan

CT Brain Scans At Cedars-Sinai investigated – Dosage Settings Too High

Cedars found the overdoses back in August and began their own investigation after patients were complaining of hair loss and red irritated skin. As a result the FDA has sent out a warning letter advising for safe settings for scanners. 8...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2009 6:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, FDA, software, Safety, CT Scan, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Algorithms, radiation, screening, brain scan

Doctor Goes to the ER Room – His Story About Over Diagnosing First Hand as the Patient

This is an interesting post from a doctor who himself was put through the hoops of what we might call defensive medicine. He has a shingles problem and once he arrived at the ER room, he found out how vulnerable he was after a day at the hospital...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2009 12:53 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, MRI, ER Room, CT Scan, Pain, MD, shingles

Doctor Self-Referrals – Physician Owned CT Scanners Questioned Again

Here goes the same question again, are they being over used. Well this time I’m going to speak out a bit from some personal experience where I worked with a physician’s practice, writing software that connected to the information from the CT scanner...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2009 6:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospital, patient care, health insurance, CT Scan, Diagnosis, healthcare reform, healthcrare, Self Referrals

Battle looms over funding cuts for MRIs and CT Scans

This is not a new battle as reductions have been created in the past for imaging centers and the compensation reduced and now it looks as if it is back in place with another potential reduction, basically pushing all to go to the hospitals for major medical...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2009 10:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Imaging, MRI, CT Scan, Obama, Lobbying, healthcare reform

Virtual Autopsies – Technology on the Move

If you watch any of the CSI series on television, you probably have already seen a glimpse or two at the morgue on the shows. With a virtual autopsy the pathologist has a permanent 3D record of the body, so the use of CT scans and MRI could be the...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2009 11:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, MRI, CT Scan, CSE, virtual autopsy, morgue

3D Slicer – Open Source Software for CT and MRI Radiology

The 3D Slicer project has been funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health. Slicer is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, so it looks like almost everyone is covered here. From the software side of things it...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 6:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Dicom, PACS, Medical Imaging, MRI, Harvard Medical School, software, CT Scan, MIT, Slice technology, 3D slicer, Collider, Open Source Software

Colonoscopy Without the Scope – Study States CT Scan is Effective

The debate over Medicare paying for this procedures has been up in the air for years, but now I believe the cost as well as convenience issue is starting to come together. CT Scanners have had this service available for years and it certainly is much...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 11:16 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Colonoscopy, Virtual Colonoscopy, Cancer, CT Scan, Advanced Body Scan

FDA Issues CT Scan Alert – Patients with Medical Devices

Patients pretty well know that have the devices that MRIs are out of the picture if the device is internal and cannot be shut off. The big contender though is implanted heart devices. Sometimes medical devices go on the blink even without...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 8:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Devices, FDA, CT Scan

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