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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | October 13, 2015
From the October 2015 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The facility also began sending dose data from its scanners to a central database more than a year ago. “It’s all part of a program where there’s a greater awareness on a proper use of medical radiation,” Farquhar says. “Most of the work from this is the education and awareness components, which is across the entire spectrum of the health care delivery system. That’s more of a time investment. It’s doing the right thing and the safe thing to do in each case.”
One of the most common questions Toshiba has been receiving from customers is “what’s next?” Nicholson says that based on discussions with MITA, a likely next step is to require that dose information is included in the patient’s health record, something that is currently required in California. “You can almost predict the future,” Nicholson says. “If you’re being required to do that report [under XR-29] you’re going to be required to do something with it.”
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