Radiology reports are essential for documenting and sharing a physician's findings. There are many ways of formatting these reports. This blog explores the difference between two that are often confused as the same thing but are fundamentally different. Knowing the difference between these two types of reports is essential when talking to your cloud PACS vendor.
As we near the end of 2022, we reflect on the past year of Purview's most read and shared blogs. Ranging from the new idea of establishing a 'virtual front door' in healthcare, to the impact of second opinions in pathology, patient resources, and the challenges that surround licensure in telehealth, these topics continue to resurface as we establish research and standards to inform what is best for today's patients in a rapidly changing field.
One of the key experiences during one's time as a graduate is working as an intern. Gaining work experience is the foundation to boosting employability, especially as a master’s student. After landing an internship as Data Science and Visualization Intern at Purview this past Summer, I couldn't wait to experience the professional world.
Today, as my internship comes to a close, I feel it was one of the best decisions I could have made to start my career off right. This internship has helped me to expand my perspectives, has enhanced my personal and professional skills, and has encouraged me to apply my academic knowledge, ideas, and theories to solve real-world problems that the healthcare industry is grappling with.
One of the most critical parts of this internship included learning how to handle health data. I was introduced to HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information. Purview takes data privacy very seriously and sponsored me to receive HIPAA certification, encouraging me to put into practice what I was learning.
This knowledge and training surrounding the careful treatment of personal data will impact all of my work in the future, regardless of whether I am working with health data. Protecting data privacy is an important public issue globally as apps and devices will continue to accumulate and track our personal data more and more each day. As an emerging data scientist, I feel that I share a major responsibility with my peers and colleagues to protect all people's privacy.
My capstone project during my time at Purview involved helping to establish and improve upon performance reporting for the health care organizations that Purview serves. Through various quantitative and qualitative metrics, we evaluated the quality of care, throughput, differences by division, patient access, and satisfaction amongst others.
Pediatric health care workers are fearing the tripledemic. The RSV surge alone is overwhelming pediatric hospitals, according to the Advisory Board.[1] While today COVID seems to mostly be a retrospective, it still is a real threat. And the flu season is just beginning. Does that mean we are returning to pandemic-like conditions this winter?
Earlier this year, I injured my hand during a martial arts training session; I heard a popping noise at the same time that I felt a lightning bolt go through my finger. Ouch! Later that hour, I was in an urgent care center getting an x-ray taken of my hand. Working for a cloud-based medical records company, I figured that a doctor would need to see my scans someday, so I asked the x-ray technician how I could get my images to my provider. He told me that he can burn a CD for me and I can take it to my visit. Easy enough.
