Internet use in radiology: results of a nationwide survey

Vorbeck, Friedrich; Zimmermann, Christa; Vorbeck-Meister, I.; Kainberger, Franz; Imhof, Herwig

doi:10.1016/s0720-048x(99)00075-3

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“…A nationwide study conducted by Vorbeck et al14 in Austria, apart from the Alps, a country similar to Belgium, showed that radiologists were already familiar with the Internet in 1999. Today, all radiologists at our institution have a broadband Internet connection at home, including secure access to the electronic medical records and the PACS.…”

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Design and Implementation of an Open Source Indexing Solution for a Large Set of Radiological Reports and Images

et al. 2007

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This paper hopes to share the insights we experienced during designing, building, and running an indexing solution for a large set of radiological reports and images in a production environment for more than 3 years. Several technical challenges were encountered and solved in the course of this project. One hundred four million words in 1.8 million radiological reports from 1989 to the present were indexed and became instantaneously searchable in a user-friendly fashion; the median query duration is only 31 ms. Currently, our highly tuned index holds 332,088 unique words in four languages. The indexing system is feature-rich and language-independent and allows for making complex queries. For research and training purposes it certainly is a valuable and convenient addition to our radiology informatics toolbox. Extended use of open-source technology dramatically reduced both implementation time and cost. All software we developed related to the indexing project has been made available to the open-source community covered by an unrestricted Berkeley Software Distribution-style license.

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Design and Implementation of an Open Source Indexing Solution for a Large Set of Radiological Reports and Images

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“…A total of 69% of all respondents had used the Internet at some time for literature searching and 12% at some time for teaching or education. The study further found that 28% of respondents had accessed electronic journals 4. A 2002 survey of 2,200 physicians found that 65% used the Internet for literature searching, 53% used it to search for medical information, and 45% accessed online journals 5…”

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Utilization of a Radiology-Centric Search Engine

Sharpe

Siegel

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J Digit Imaging

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Internet-based search engines have become a significant component of medical practice. Physicians increasingly rely on information available from search engines as a means to improve patient care, provide better education, and enhance research. Specialized search engines have emerged to more efficiently meet the needs of physicians. Details about the ways in which radiologists utilize search engines have not been documented. The authors categorized every 25th search query in a radiology-centric vertical search engine by radiologic subspecialty, imaging modality, geographic location of access, time of day, use of abbreviations, misspellings, and search language. Musculoskeletal and neurologic imagings were the most frequently searched subspecialties. The least frequently searched were breast imaging, pediatric imaging, and nuclear medicine. Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography were the most frequently searched modalities. A majority of searches were initiated in North America, but all continents were represented. Searches occurred 24 h/day in converted local times, with a majority occurring during the normal business day. Misspellings and abbreviations were common. Almost all searches were performed in English. Search engine utilization trends are likely to mirror trends in diagnostic imaging in the region from which searches originate. Internet searching appears to function as a real-time clinical decision-making tool, a research tool, and an educational resource. A more thorough understanding of search utilization patterns can be obtained by analyzing phrases as actually entered as well as the geographic location and time of origination. This knowledge may contribute to the development of more efficient and personalized search engines.

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“…Web sites of professional, government, education and commercial organisations are utilised by health professionals to access online journals, health and medical databases, practice guidelines, image banks and case studies as well as information on professional development activities (see for example 31,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Internet based communication tools of e-mail, listservs and discussion forums are used by health professionals to consult with colleagues nationally and internationally (31,32,34,35,39).…”

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“…T i m e i s r e c o g n i s e d a s a m a j o r b a r r i e r t o u p d a t i n g p r o f e s s i o n a l k n o w l e d g e b y h e a l t h professionals (33,34,(57)(58)(59). In recent studies of Australian health professionals the provision of protected time, that is time during work hours when health professionals are not engaged in clinical or teaching duties, have been reported.…”

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Professional Learning in Sonography

Shanahan¹

2012

Sonography

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Internet use in radiology: results of a nationwide survey

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

Design and Implementation of an Open Source Indexing Solution for a Large Set of Radiological Reports and Images

Design and Implementation of an Open Source Indexing Solution for a Large Set of Radiological Reports and Images

Utilization of a Radiology-Centric Search Engine

Professional Learning in Sonography

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