Blogs

Particle Beam Radiotherapy With Carbon Ions – A Growing Cancer Treatment Modality

Since the first patients with cancer were treated with carbon ion particle beam therapy in 1994 in Japan, additional facilities have been built so that as of February 2019, there are 7 carbon therapy and 6 proton and carbon facilities worldwide.

How is Innovation Changing Cardiovascular Ultrasound?

We hear the word innovation used in every industry but what does it mean for us in healthcare?

Nagamori Memorial Center of Innovative Cancer Therapy and Research started operation with Hitachi PROBEAT-CR

On April 1st, 2019, Nagamori Memorial Center of Innovative Cancer Therapy and Research (“Nagamori Memorial Center”) located in Kyoto, Japan, began treating patients with proton therapy in a facility operated by Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (KPUM).

How to Reduce Error and Promote Efficiency with Structured Reporting

Providing patients with proper and comprehensive care in the most quick and efficient manner is a benchmark that all healthcare practitioners are continually aspiring to; with the key to success being to streamline time-consuming tasks, eliminate redundancies, and reign in points of potential err

Three Ways Structured Reporting can Improve Communication

Healthcare is often complicated, with numerous physicians of various specialties seeing the same patient.

Maximize Quality in Your Pediatric Cardiology Practice

Cardiovascular ultrasound for fetal, pediatric, and congenital patients can be a challenge with the need to visualize, examine, and diagnose complex anatomy and the smallest anatomical details.

Streamline Your Reporting Workflow with Data that Copies Forward to New Reports

Structured reports can reduce the reporting burden immensely, but often times there are patients with chronic conditions that return for repeat exams, requiring successive reporting w

The Top 5 Benefits of Structured Reporting

In the age of value-based medicine, there is an intensifying pressure to optimize workflow while maintaining high standards in healthcare delivery.

What is value in healthcare?

The term "value" has recently become a topic of conversion in healthcare. But what is value? And what role does it play in healthcare? In this entry, we will discuss how value works in healthcare.

What is quality in healthcare?

In the previous entry, we discussed what value is and what the term means for healthcare services.

Value is the provision of high quality healthcare service and outcomes at minimal cost necessary.