Patient Engagement: Man Finds Own Cancer!

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

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

Better Breast-imaging Workflow: UCSF Case Study

When the women’s imaging department at the Mount Zion campus of the Beyond the Basics: Next-generation Radiology Reports

At Shields Health Care Group (SHCG), an outpatient high-end imaging provider headquartered...

Leveraging IT for Better Service

Don Trexler, CEO of Baton Rouge Radiology Group (BRRG) in Louisiana, wants his practice to be different from a typical imaging group. “We’re...

Marooned on Level 3: Leverage IT to Improve Reporting

In a December 2 session at RSNA 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, on using next-generation health care IT to improve radiology, David Avrin, MD, PhD, radiologist at...

RIS Migration at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center

It’s as extreme a transition as any IT professional could imagine: moving from a remotely hosted RIS to a fully integrated RIS/PACS...

Hosted RIS: An Efficient Alternative

When Vanderbilt Imaging Services LLC, the freestanding outpatient radiology practice associated with Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn, opened its doors in 1999, the center decided...

Is Custom Reporting Difficult?

Completing a customized report using RIS data-mining software (or some other system) is simply a matter of learning a little technology. For Stefanie Dendy,...

Data Mining: Imaging Executives Crunch the Numbers

RIS data, keyed to billing, can be analyzed to improve competitive capability and pare inefficiency to the nub

Physicians and executives are...

Information Theft: How to Prevent It

What do hospital administrators and their CIOs fear above all else? It may be information theft, especially if that information includes sensitive patient data....

Intersociety Conference Urges Adoption of Structured Reports

Aside from referrers’ clear-cut preference for structured reports, radiologists have added cause to adopt the use of structured reporting. At its annual meeting last...

Look, No Hands: Reports Go Directly to Referrer EMRs

John Griffith, CIO of Epic Imaging, Portland, Ore, says, “They asked us for it, and we had to come up with a solution.” The...

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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