Radiology’s ACO Play: Get in the Game—Now

The ACO, a relatively new concept that met with great skepticism when it appeared in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now ranks...

Ahead in the Cloud: Imaging Cloud Applications and Ideas

The data-intensive nature of radiology has long kept the specialty on the cutting edge of IT. That’s why cloud computing is a relatively...

Duke University Health System Selects Epic-friendly VNA

When Duke University Health System (DUHS) in Durham, North Carolina, goes live with its full-blown Epic electronic health record (EHR) implementation in June 2013, another...

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

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...

The CIO Perspective: Issues in Image Management

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,...

Can Health Informatics Reduce Health Care Costs?

The answer to that question may appear obvious to imaging informatics professionals, but a study released earlier this year by the Government Accountability Office ...

Change Management: Influencing the Uneasy Alliance Between Man and Machine

No one faces a constantly changing landscape more than the CIO at a large health care institution. Until recently, Michael T. Balassone was CIO...

IT’s Cross-functional Business Agenda

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...

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

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....

Role of the Practice CIO

The adoption of PACS by radiology practices has added a new member to their executive committees: the CIO. “The core duties of the CIO...

A CIO at the Table

Most radiology practices have not invited their CIOs onto the executive committee, but a recent surve1 from the Center for CIO Leadership suggests that...

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Using Analytics to Achieve Strategic Goals: Quantum Imaging & Therapeutic Associates

For many years, hospitals and physician practices have engaged with payors in a little game we play in a free market society called “negotiation.” This game enables the players to use whatever tools and stratagems they possess to leverage as good a price possible for their services/business in an increasingly price-conscious marketplace. On the provider side, good means high, and on the payor side, good means low. Providers might negotiate from a position