Radiology’s Next Move: Bigger Data

In the 1990s, it was easy to be a success. You had to work hard not to be a success. That’s not true...

A Conversation With Mark Alfonso, MD: What Is Patient-centered Radiology?

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...

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...

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...

A Clearer View: Enriching Radiologist Workflow

The next frontier in radiologist workflow won’t be another enhancement to hanging protocols, a faster processor, or an improved graphical user interface, Eliot...

Health IT: Cornerstone of Health-care Reform

When, today, you go to see suites of hospitals and systems, they have got a grand strategy for what they want to execute in...

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,...

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...

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 Improving Health Care: There Are Apps for That

If Dan Hesse had told you, 25 years ago, that you’d be reviewing studies, monitoring patients, and communicating with referrers using Maxwell Smart’s...

Building the Fully Loaded HIE: Images on Board

With a health IT stimulus package valued at $19 billion1 in play, one of the least controversial subjects in the health-reform debate is the potential...

Interoperability: An Open-source Toolkit

Within radiology, interoperability and sharing information are among our most challenging and important tasks. Not only does the coming wave of adoption of electronic...

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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