May 2008 Newsletter

100 Worst Cities for Allergies in America
Courtesy of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) revealed the nation’s top 100 Spring Allergy Capitals™ for 2008 -- identifying the most challenging places to live for people with spring allergies. 

AAFA ranks the Spring Allergy Capitals™ based on the impact that key environmental and medical factors have on allergic individuals in each metropolitan area.  AAFA identifies the allergy capitals every year to help consumers recognize, prevent and safely treat allergy symptoms.

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) is the largest and oldest nonprofit consumer and patient organization fighting asthma and allergic diseases.  AAFA provides free information to the public, offers educational programs to consumers and health professionals, leads advocacy efforts to improve patient care, and supports research to find cures.  For more information, visit www.aafa.org.
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AOA Presents a CT Accreditation Webinar
Wednesday June 18, 2008 4:00pm EST / 3:00pm CT / 2:00pm MT / 1:00pm PT
Immediate next steps to get accredited, the ICACTL application, and required specialty CT policies will be outlined in this presentation. The webinar will cover the third party accreditation requirements for specialty CT by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation for Computed Tomography Laboratories (ICACTL). The featured speaker will be AOA member Jolene Eicher.

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Enter the coupon code 'comis' to receive a discounted price of $75!

Patient Outrage Letter
Most patients would prefer to be scanned directly where they are being treated.  Why?  Frankly, it's convenient.  But convenience may not be enough to call someone to action.  

Radiation dose, however, is definitely an issue to rally patients and parents to step-up and shout...to their insurance company!  And the potential to lower workplace absenteeism might rally their employers to back them.

Xoran has created a "Patient Outrage Letter" that includes arguments that address: low-dose for the patient; specific protocols for ENT; and time + money inefficiencies with respect to the patient and employer.  

This is a template that can be modified by the patient, the physician, or used "as is".  Please share with us the results/receptiveness from your patients, their employers and insurance companies!
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XoranConnect^™ and MiniCAT^™ Software Tip
Click on the Distance Tool icon in the toolbar to activate the tool.

In the MPR viewer, the Distance Tool measures the distance between two points on an image (in millimeters). One of the most important functions of the distance tool is to confirm the distance of BBs on phantoms for quality control purposes.