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Interview: Meaningful Use, radiology are 'part and parcel' to one another
Meaningful Use and radiology are "part and parcel" to one another, particularly given the increased push to allow patients to see health records and lab results on demand, says Leonard Berlin (right), a radiologist at Skokie (Ill.) Hospital and a professor of Radiology at Rush University and the University of Illinois, Chicago. According to Berlin, who gave one of two orations at the Radiological Society of North America's recent annual conference in Chicago, there's no question that the two are intertwined."Patients deserve access to their records, and it's only in the last decade or so where there's been a movement to say the contrary is not right," Berlin toldFierceMedicalImaging in an exclusive interview. "There's a definite movement from physician-centered care to patient-centered care." Read more...
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