Diagnostic Professionals Monitors Patient Care With Pulse

A decade after starting Diagnostic Professionals, Inc (DPI), Claude Hanuschak, its COO, still refuses to let federal payment policy thwart his success. When faced...

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center: Discovering Hidden Data With PACS-embedded AV Tools

Having a tool kit of advanced visualization tools embedded in the PACS of the Keck Hospital of the University of Southern California (USC) has...

Piggyback PACS: Pursuing Enterprise Image Management

Radiologists have become PACS experts, sometimes by default. Because diagnostic images made the greatest demands on early information systems in health care, the most...

Interpreting From Multiple Facilities: The Case for a PACS-driven Workflow

For the first five years of its existence, Tower Saint John’s Imaging, a full-service outpatient imaging center in Santa Monica, California, that is...

Implementing Next-generation Radiologist Workflow

Health-care payment models are shifting, with providers taking on risk in the form of accountable-care organizations, bundled payments, impositions such as radiology benefit managers,...

Riverside Radiology Doubles Down on Distributed Reading

To improve patient care and further build its business, Riverside Radiology of Columbus, Ohio,...

The PACS Divorce: Rules of Engagement

Maybe your PACS vendor is going out of business, or the system is so creaky that your vendor no longer offers support. Perhaps your...

Building a Distributed-reading Solution: Sunshine Radiology

Sunshine Radiology was facing a quandary familiar to many radiology groups. The busy 25-radiologist...

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...

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...

Have RIS/PACS, Will Travel

For over thirty years, Radiation Physics Inc (Beltsville, Maryland) has been providing mobile imaging...

Executing the Digital Transformation

When Saint Michael’s Medical Center (SMMC), Newark, New Jersey, was acquired by Catholic...

Crystal Ball: Toward True Enterprise Image Management

As the potential role of informatics in transforming health care gains national attention, how are IT tools for imaging and image management evolving to...

Academic PACS: It’s Not Elementary, Watson

In the late 1990s, Yale School of Medicine, New haven, Connecticut, implemented its first PACS. James Brink, MD, chair of the department of radiology...

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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

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When Bigger Isn’t Better

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It Takes Will to Fight Commoditization

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The Jig is Up

Enterprise Image Management: Bringing Cardiology Into the Fold

Harris County Hospital District (HCHD) is the public health-care system for the nation’s third most populous county (Harris County, Texas); with 44 locations, it...

Toward True Globalization: The Air Force and PACS

Sharing images across any health care enterprise represents a challenge, but doing so across the Pacific Rim was the dilemma faced in 2003 by the...

The Transformational Effects of Informatics on the Practice of Radiology: A Roundtable Discussion

On October 6, 2009, four physicians gathered in Stamford, Connecticut, to participate in a discussion moderated by Cheryl Proval, Radinformatics.com editorial director.

Robert Lipman,...

PACS Nirvana: University Radiology’s Reporting-driven Workflow

Ever since digital imaging liberated radiologists from the site of image acquisition, radiology practices have labored to patch together distributed reading solutions that would...

In the Navy: The DoD and the Future of PACS

The US Navy deployed its first PACS—a military-specified system with limited functionality—in 1996. Since then, the Navy has operated multiple PACS from a...

A Virtual Coup: The Server Room of the Future

The server requirements of any modern hospital are daunting; the back-end processing power necessary to operate multiple health information systems across an enterprise of...

Maximizing RIS Potential

The IT needs of today’s radiology practices are ever evolving, and investing in the latest information solutions can be vital to the survival...

PACS/RIS Replacement: Cheating the Big Bang

Replacing technology is always nerve-wracking, but it is particularly volatile when the systems being replaced are a PACS and a RIS, systems at the...

When Worlds Collide: Integrating Radiology and Cardiology Imaging

On August 24, 2008, Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes, Ind, became the first site in the country to go live with integration between the Synapse PACS from...

Avoiding Nightmare PACS Outages

Preparation is the difference between unexpected PACS downtime and a nightmare, Michael D. Toland told his audience in Seattle on May 17 at the 2008 annual...

Long-term Data Management and Migration for PACS

PACS data migration is so important that every PACS acquisition should include a plan for outbound migration at the end of that system’s...

Advance Preparation Is Key to Smooth Migration

When John Mowry, digital imaging manager at Cook’s Children’s Health Care System, Fort Worth, Tex, decided to switch from his legacy PACS...

Leverage PACS IT Support to Grow Referrals

While radiology practices and imaging center operators spend heavily on marketing liaisons to help cement favorable referral patterns, few understand the role that hands-on...

My PET/CT Experience: Adding a New Modality to PACS

It was a Tuesday afternoon when I received the call. The new PET/CT scanner was installed, and acceptance testing was about to begin,...

Grow Your Multisite Business With a Single Sign-on Solution

Six months ago, Jesse Salen, vice president of sales and technology for Online Radiology Medical Group (ORMG), Riverside, Calif, found himself in a situation...

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