What Imaging Leaders Should Know About Teamwork
by Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle
The following is not a trick question: What does the US Army’s legendary 82nd Airborne Division have in common with today’s medical-imaging…
Beyond the Blame Game
by Cheryl Proval
It is not accuracy of interpretations, or contrast-media administration, or wrong-site surgeries, or infection control in the MRI suite. No, the specialty’s…
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Extreme RIS: Breaking Down Communication Barriers
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Pam Elias RTR, CNMT Imaging Services Manager Redington-Fairview General Hospital
Brandon Groh RTR, CT PACS Administrator Redington-Fairview General Hospital
Fujifilm Medical Systems
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Advanced Visualization | Next-generation Architectures
Visage Imaging
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Keep Your Hospital Relationships Healthy: Strategies for Every Practice
Medical Management Professionals, Inc.
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RIS to the Rescue | Strategies for Driving Revenue, Productivity and Profitability
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Codonics Insight
Imaging as You like it... Medical Imager Caters to Physician Print Preferences
Radisphere
GE Healthcare
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PACS Passages
Few processes in radiology are as dreaded as switching from a legacy PACS to a newer replacement. Often approached only when the former PACS is on its last legs, the transition between systems requires diligent selection from an ever-widening field of solutions, lengthy migration of complex (and sometimes flawed) data, and retraining of all affected staff. It’s also, however, the next step that many hospitals and practices have been awaiting to bring 21st-century clinical and business capabilities to their imaging operations.
Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care
For nearly a year and a half following the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the medical community had one question on its mind: What constitutes meaningful use? The HITECH legislation stresses that in order to receive stimulus funding for health IT, providers must prove meaningful use of that technology.
Debunking the Primary Myths of PACS
The road to PACS perfection is paved with distractions and pitfalls, Paul Chang, MD, FSIIM, says. Chang is professor of radiology, vice chair of radiology informatics, and medical director of enterprise imaging at University of Chicago Medical Center in Illinois. During the 2010 Dwyer Lecture, “The Role of Imaging Informatics in the Next Generation of EMR/EHR,” presented June 4, 2010, at the meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Chang used the experiences of other industries to debunk common PACS myths—and to illuminate next-generation requirements for imaging.
Radiologue: Whole-system Communications for Radiology
The San Francisco General Hospital/University of California–San Francisco Department of Radiology has created a groundbreaking communications tool called Radiologue. Alexander V. Rybkin, MD, a radiologist in that department, described the system in “A Web-based Flexible Communication System in Radiology,” which he presented in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 5, 2010, at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.
Sparking the Storage and Sharing Revolution: Symantec Health’s Lori Wright
Radiology has a storage problem, to put it lightly: Even as the data associated with a single cross-sectional imaging study increase dramatically, HIPAA requirements to ensure patient privacy remain as stringent as ever.
New Radiology-department Solution Opens New Doors
Integration has been a buzzword in the radiology community for some time, and the team at Valhalla, New York-based Westchester Medical Center (WMC) knows why.
Beyond the Basics: Next-generation Radiology Reports
At Shields Health Care Group (SHCG), an outpatient high-end imaging provider headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts, staying ahead of the technology curve has been a clearly defined business initiative from the beginning.
Have RIS/PACS, Will Travel
For over thirty years, Radiation Physics Inc (Beltsville, Maryland) has been providing mobile imaging services to the Baltimore and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas, serving long-term–care and assisted-living clients, as well as prisons and private residences.
Executing the Digital Transformation
When Saint Michael’s Medical Center (SMMC), Newark, New Jersey, was acquired by Catholic Health East in 2009, the organization had some catching up to do in the IT department
