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“Why make your RIS into an electronic health record (EHR) just to satisfy meaningful use?” David Avrin, MD, PhD, asks. It is a question...

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

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Patient engagement in health care (or patient-centered communication, as it’s often called) has been compared to marriage, where the relationship between care seeker...

Diagnostic Professionals Monitors Patient Care With Pulse

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If the triple aim—improved access to better-quality health care at a lower cost—is the goal of health-care reform, then patient-centered care is...

Commodifiable Me: A First-person Account of the Virtues of Imaging Informatics

The Argonauts (and Odysseus, after them) had to sail past rocky islands housing the enchanting Sirens. Their wonderful songs made sailors hurl themselves overboard...

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...

Idea in Search of a Business Model: Solving the Image-sharing Dilemma

The deftness of data movement between sites creates a deception that it’s easy; it’s not. Leaving aside technical problems with integration, servers,...

Children’s Hospital Colorado Reaps the Benefits of an Image-enabled EHR

Since opening on February 17, 1910, the 375-bed Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC), in Aurora has tried to be a leader in providing the best health-care...

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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...

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As mobile technology gains traction among primary care physicians to aid in faster, more effective patient consultation, can adoption of this technology among image-intensive...

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