Experience Stories

Imaging Reimbursement: What We Knew Then and What We Know Now

VMG

As anyone who has been around medical imaging for any amount of time can tell you, the latest headwind is the same as it’s seemingly always been: reimbursement cuts.

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Beyond Collaboration

IMP

As my partner Doug Smith is fond of saying, the awakening period for hospitals is upon us.

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Managing Radiology Datasets to Achieve Success

IMP

There is little question that consolidation and integration in the health-care sector is in full force and will continue to dominate the landscape in 2014—given the markedly high level of healthcare entities merger and acquisition activity in 2013, of that we can be certain.

Integrating Delivery and Growing Imaging Volume: Longview Regional Medical Center

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

In June 2012, Longview Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Texas began a multimillion-dollar expansion aimed at making deeper integration of care delivery possible throughout the 230-bed hospital.

Marketing Dose Monitoring and Reduction to Patients

SECTRA

As initiatives for radiation-dose reduction take root in health systems and hospitals around the country—driven, in some cases, by state legislation mandating dose tracking and reporting—these organizations should be careful not to let messaging to patients fall by the wayside, according to Ian Judd, product manager for Sectra.

Three Ways the PPACA Will Help Radiology

Zotec

Despite a host of technical problems, more than 2 million people have already signed up for health coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) mandate.

Imaging’s 2014 Merger/Acquisition Outlook: Responding to Reform

VMG

Marked by plenty of merger/acquisition activity, 2013 was a more tumultuous year in the imaging industry than anticipated, according to Todd Sorensen, CVA, a partner with health-care valuation and advisory company VMG Health.

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Why Accept Tradeoffs? Have Both Your Enterprise EMR and Complementary, Functionally-rich Department Software

Sponsored by GE HealthCare

Many feel that the EMR is central to the health of the enterprise and promises to meet many needs. However, as stakeholders drill down into individual departments, there are areas where the EMR may fail to address the specific workflow of the caregivers in those specialties.