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...

The VNA Revealed: Understanding Its Role in a Health-delivery System

Many radiology administrators remember purchasing their first or second PACS: It was probably no small financial commitment, and justifying the expense might have been...

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...

Managing the Email Archive: Compliance and Complexities

Health-care IT professionals are no strangers to the complexities that arise from managing ever-growing archives. One particular subset of the data stored across the...

Failure to Set Policy Tops List of Security Risks

While RIS and PACS have become indispensable components of the electronic health record (EHR), they also pose risks to patient security and data integrity....

Data Conundrum: Ensuring Critical Access While Preserving Privacy

A health care provider that is too intent on protecting personally identifiable patient information could take patient privacy beyond the level that is optimal...

On Guard: A Tale of Two Security Settings

Imaging information is becoming increasingly mobile: For evidence, look no further than the FDA’s recent approval of an app for the iPod, iPhone,...

PHI Protection: Data at Rest, Data at Risk

Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act went into effect in February 2010, regulations regarding health-care data security have become...

The Road to Enterprise Reliability: One RHIO’s Story

Every advance in imaging technology—the proliferation of slices per CT scan, the mounting use of MRI and CT to diagnose heart disease, and...

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Appropriateness and the ACO: How Radiology Can Position Itself to Lead

The Growth Paradox: How Should Radiologists’ Behavior Be Rewarded?

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