Six years ago, radiologist Michael Zalis found himself spending a lot of time logging in and out of separate electronic health records at Massachusetts General Hospital to gather lab data, clinical notes, and other non-imaging information scattered in multiple databases.

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Dr Morgan points to clinical research by his group, and recent brain-imaging studies by Rainer Thomasius at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany.

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While gouty arthritis is diagnosed by aspiration of joint fluid, distinguishing tendinitis versus a sprain versus a fracture requires a clinical examination and possibly an X-ray or magnetic resonance imaging.

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It's not a wide-ranging committee of experts on clinical trials, but instead a group with expertise on studying the arteries with imaging technology.

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