Perspectives on Quality

In the last issue of RadAnalytics, I wrote about productivity and efficiency, with an...

From Quality to Outcomes: Deploying Clinical Analytics

Although radiology has employed clinical analytics for more than a decade, the field is in its infancy. Nonetheless, the possibilities are tantalizing—if technological,...

A Dose of Prevention: The Role of the RIS in Preventing Overexposure

In many ways, the problem of radiation overexposure still resembles a crime scene. Investigators come in after the fact and attempt to determine what...

FDA Pediatric Guidance Document Aligns Manufacturers and Patient-safety Groups

In May, the FDA¹ released for public comment a guidance document ...

Measuring Performance in Radiology

Number crunchers at radiology practices might occasionally lose sleep over the complex nature of performance assessment, but that’s nothing, compared with the sleepless...

The Radiology Report, Refined

It’s often said that radiology’s product is the report. It’s the crucible where referring physicians judge the effectiveness of their subspecialist...

Dose Reduction in Radiology: An Industrywide Initiative

There is no more compelling story in radiology today than the urgency with which organized radiology and imaging modality vendors have come together to...

All Aboard California’s Dose-reduction Locomotive

In September 2010, California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger™ signed into law a measure mandating that radiologists include dose–length product or volume CT dose index...

Malpractice Issues in Radiology: Failure to Communicate

There are two major ways that a physician ends up in court, sued for malpractice: first, by providing care in a negligent manner; second,...

Developing Appropriateness Criteria for Imaging

Decision support might be the technology that brings imaging out of external control and back into self-regulation, since its effectiveness appears to equal or...

Improving Quality While Boosting Revenue: CMCH Case Study

When Bill Lawrence became CEO of Central Michigan Community Hospital (CMCH)...

The Quality Challenge

Defining quality in radiology seems simple: It’s an accurate diagnosis or interpretation, provided in a timely manner, in a clear and easy-to-follow report....

Improving the Health-care Transaction

If there is one key thing that patients want from health care, this is it: that they come away from the encounter in better...

Beyond the Blame Game

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 number-one...

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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

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Radiology’s Next Move: Bigger Data

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Perspectives

Cat Vasko
When Bigger Isn’t Better

Harley J Hammerman, MD
A Radiologist Swings Back on Escalating Health Care Costs

Lena Kauffman
Good Patient Communication Matters, So Why is it So Hard?

Steve Smith
It Takes Will to Fight Commoditization

Cheryl Proval
The Jig is Up

Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle
Video: Influence and Leadership

Exposed: Radiation Safety in the Imaging Suite

Nationwide cumulative-dose indices, warning flags in electronic medical records (EMRs), and electronic imaging-history smart cards: All these are being called for to protect patients...

Standardizing Imaging Protocols: VISN 23 Case Study

Rapidly evolving technology capabilities are reason enough to standardize imaging protocols across a health-care enterprise. Add the desire to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and...

When Your Quality Is Questioned: Answers From Frank Seidelmann, DO

Recent media coverage of a radiologist’s accusations of inaccuracy against Radisphere National...

Fail-safe: Automating Critical-results Notification

The radiology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, Massachusetts, developed a policy for communicating critical and discrepant results after the Joint...

Effective Quality Assurance: Obstacles and Pointers

As the radiology marketplace matures, becoming increasingly competitive, it’s more important than ever for practices to differentiate themselves based on quality, according to...

Tracking Patient Radiation Dose: IT Implications

In February, the FDA announced a new initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from CT, nuclear-medicine, and fluoroscopy exams. The agency’s three-pronged approach...

An Urgent Case for Quality

Gary Becker, MD, outgoing president of the RSNA, read members the equivalent of the riot act in his presidential address on November 29 in Chicago,...

Engaging Physicians in Hospital Radiology Quality Initiatives

The question of how to engage physicians in hospital quality initiatives “is one that many organizations are grappling with,” according to Albert Bothe, MD,...

The Quest for Quality in Radiology

With Quality Counts as its theme for 2009, the RSNA’s 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, obviously emphasized multiple aspects of...

CT Radiation Dose on the Table

Long a point of concern in Europe, radiation dose has emerged as a key point of consideration for pediatric radiologists in the United States,...

Quality Control With A Custom Fit

Less than a year ago, the radiology department at the Fletcher Allen Medical Center (FAMC), Burlington, Vermont, the hospital affiliate of the University of...

Cracking the Code for Improving Quality

As the entire health care continuum comes under increased scrutiny in terms of both cost and effectiveness, radiologists and administrators alike have fresh cause...

MIPPA’s Impact on Imaging

At the 2009 annual meeting of AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 12, two representatives of the ACR presented “...

Radiology’s Role in Limiting Health Care–acquired Infections

In a session at this month’s meeting of AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management in Las Vegas, Nevada, Lyn M. Mehlberg, BS,...

PQRI: Money on the Table

Medicare made more than $36 million in payments to more than 56,000 physicians who participated in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative in 2007. That’s the good...

Imaging Referendum

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