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Ahead of the curve or out of the loop? Ten challenges to nuclear medicine interconnectivity
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Editor's note: Long before most other specialties took on the task of tying their efforts into departmental and hospital information systems, nuclear medicine specialists worked with computers on a daily basis. As the rest of the medical world has become electronically interconnected, however, many nuclear medicine departments have lagged behind imaging and clinical departments in integrating daily work into larger hospital information systems and in making full use of the advancing range of archiving and interpretation tools. Newsline asked Eliot Siegel, MD, professor and vice-chair of ...
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Nuclear medicine in the 21st century: Integration with other specialties
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Proposal to increase nuclear medicine residency program for 2 to 3 years
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Nuclear Medicine Scientists: Findings and Recommendations Based on a 2006 Survey
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Lee revises, rewrites Computers in Nuclear Medicine for SNM
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