Interoperability - ImagingBiz

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+ New Payment Models and the Radiology Practice

+ Value-based Purchasing: From Theory to Practice

+ Quantum Leap: Radiology Groups Consolidate to Grow

+ Hospital-based Versus Freestanding Outpatient Imaging Services [PDF]

+ Cost Comparison: Hospital-based Versus Freestanding Outpatient Imaging Services [PDF]

+ Radiology-group Financial Performance [PDF]

+ Outpatient Imaging Utilization Trends [PDF]

+ The Radiology Staffing Market, Temporary and Permanent [PDF]

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+ Meaningful Use Stage 2 Could Come Wednesday Says “Health Data Management”

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+ Government Health IT: The Downside of Delaying ICD-10

Radiology efficiency: The leading edge

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Extreme RIS: Breaking Down Communication Barriers

Advanced Visualization | Next-generation Architectures

RIS to the Rescue | Strategies for Driving Revenue, Productivity and Profitability

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Keep Your Hospital Relationships Healthy: Strategies for Every Practice

+ Interoperability

A Clearer View: Enriching Radiologist Workflow

September 16, 2011 | Productivity

The next frontier in radiologist workflow won’t be another enhancement to hanging protocols, a faster processor, or an improved graphical user interface, Eliot Siegel, MD, and Woojin Kim, MD, predict. Instead, these two experts in radiology informatics are looking outside the PACS and its workstations to offer radiologists... Read More »

Health IT: Cornerstone of Health-care Reform

February 16, 2011 | Priors

When, today, you go to see suites of hospitals and systems, they have got a grand strategy for what they want to execute in the next 10 years. It’s not an exaggeration to say the whole thing depends on IT. Without IT, it’s not going to change. How... Read More »

Radiologue: Whole-system Communications for Radiology

July 26, 2010 | Enterprise Trooper

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,... Read More »

Sparking the Storage and Sharing Revolution: Symantec Health’s Lori Wright

July 14, 2010 | A Better Mousetrap

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. At last year’s RSNA meeting, a new solution appeared on the horizon in the form... Read More »

New Radiology-department Solution Opens New Doors

July 14, 2010 | Radinformatics

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. “We used to have PACS, RIS, and voice recognition all working separately from... Read More »

Improving Health Care: There Are Apps for That

April 07, 2010 | Heavy Traffic

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 shoe phone, you would have thought him delirious. With today’s smart phones in play, the pitch from Sprint’s CEO did not sound like... Read More »

Building the Fully Loaded HIE: Images on Board

February 25, 2010 | Feature

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 of health information exchanges (HIEs) to lower health care costs while improving efficiency and quality of care. A handful of players in health IT have... Read More »

Interoperability: An Open-source Toolkit

February 24, 2010 | Feature

Within radiology, interoperability and sharing information are among our most challenging and important tasks. Not only does the coming wave of adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) technology mean that we need to be able to exchange electronic information with other providers and health-care software systems, but even within... Read More »