Interventional Radiology Workflow Management in the Electronic Medical Record

Electronic Medical Record Workflow Management: The Workflow of Workflow

Active electronic personal dosemeter in interventional radiology.

A recently developed active electronic personal dosemeter (AEPD) was utilised in order to measure the levels and the structure of occupational exposure to scattered X-ray radiation of medical staff who performed percutaneous revascularisation therapy that involves interventional radiology (IR) on the pelvis and upper leg arteries. The AEPDs, placed on the operators' and assistants' chests, that...

Inferring Clinical Workflow Efficiency via Electronic Medical Record Utilization

Complexity in clinical workflows can lead to inefficiency in making diagnoses, ineffectiveness of treatment plans and uninformed management of healthcare organizations (HCOs). Traditional strategies to manage workflow complexity are based on measuring the gaps between workflows defined by HCO administrators and the actual processes followed by staff in the clinic. However, existing methods tend...

Workflow in Interventional Radiology: Nerve Blocks and Facet Blocks

Workflow analysis has the potential to dramatically improve the efficiency and clinical outcomes of medical procedures. In this study, we recorded the workflow for nerve block and facet block procedures in the interventional radiology suite at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, USA. We employed a custom client/server software architecture developed by the Innovation Center for Co...

Pain Management in Interventional Radiology: An Introduction

The management of pain continues to be one of the most vexing of problems for health practitioners worldwide. The pain response is difficult to manage for multiple reasons: responses vary widely in their mechanism of action as well as anatomic location; individual responses to pain are variable; secondary gains can be had by individuals falsely claiming to be in pain; cultural differences in de...