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+ CIOs

UPMC’s Rasu Shrestha, MD, MBA: Improving the Value Proposition of Imaging Informatics

April 07, 2010 | Enterprise Trooper

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), with 20 affiliated hospitals and 30 imaging centers in western Pennsylvania, could be seen as ground zero in the effort to digitize medicine. From its innovative financial and development partnership with IBM to a recently announced pact with Google to develop a personal electronic... Read More »

The CIO Perspective: Issues in Image Management

February 24, 2010 | Feature

It is taxing enough for radiology and IT decision makers to contend with the image-management consequences of multidetector CT, high–field-strength MRI, 3D reconstructions, and various recent other trends responsible for a rising tide of diagnostic data. Added to this are the burdens created by other disciplines across the... Read More »

Can Health Informatics Reduce Health Care Costs?

June 16, 2009 | Heavy Traffic

The answer to that question may appear obvious to imaging informatics professionals, but a study released earlier this year by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) disputed the ability of health informatics to reduce health care cost. Now, all of us in radiology have seen the ability of informatics to... Read More »

Change Management: Influencing the Uneasy Alliance Between Man and Machine

November 16, 2008 | Planning Portal

No one faces a constantly changing landscape more than the CIO at a large health care institution. Until recently, Michael T. Balassone was CIO at West Virginia University Hospitals, a 522-bed teaching hospital and medical complex in Morgantown. He currently serves as senior information officer, University Medical Associates, Medical... Read More »

IT’s Cross-functional Business Agenda

November 16, 2008 | Data Central

Increasingly, radiology-practice CIOs and their hospital counterparts are being called on to interact with leadership across the organization to help drive strategic initiatives. This new level of responsibility requires CIOs to be precise and prepared for conversations with their peers across all of the organization’s business functions.

Patricia Whelan, MHA, CIO: Leading Shield’s E-strategy Charge

October 16, 2008 | CXO Files

Armed with a master’s degree in health administration from Ohio State, Patricia Whelan, MHA, went to work for Ohio State Medical Center in 1993. In 1997, she completed her two-year postgraduate fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and took a position as business systems consultant in the department of radiology. <... Read More »

Role of the Practice CIO

June 15, 2008 | NONE

The adoption of PACS by radiology practices has added a new member to their executive committees: the CIO. “The core duties of the CIO in a practice that has acquired PACS ought to be to establish security of the PACS data for both the radiology group and its clients... Read More »

A CIO at the Table

May 16, 2008 | Heavy Traffic

Most radiology practices have not invited their CIOs onto the executive committee, but a recent surve1 from the Center for CIO Leadership suggests that it may be time to set another place at the table. A practice benefits not only from hiring a well-qualified CIO, but also from empowering... Read More »