As a neuroradiologist, Ray Kirk, MD, president of Greater Houston Radiology Associates (GHRA) in Texas, often considers both the financial and clinical futures of the specialty. “Where radiology is today,” he says, “there is a need to make ourselves more relevant to the patient-care process in the eyes of our customers—hospitals, referring

With radiology practices increasingly facing the imperative to function as businesses, dashboarding has become a favorite buzzword—but what does it really mean? It is our contention, at Integrated Medical Partners, that dashboarding is a widely misunderstood concept. A practice’s business intelligence is about much more than the visually pleasing

Mecklenburg Radiology Associates (MRA), Charlotte, North Carolina, is the oldest continually operating radiology group in the state; its 40 radiologists and 10 physician assistants serve Novant Health’s four hospitals and nine imaging centers in the Southern Piedmont region of the state, as well as a number of other imaging centers, physician

Following years of experience working on the enterprise IT team at Iowa Health System as an infrastructure architect, Tom Coppa takes a strong stance on the terminology used to refer to enterprise-wide image repositories—what some have taken to calling vendor-neutral archives (VNAs). “The idea of a VNA makes a lot of sense—it remains a very solid

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was an early pioneer in establishing an enterprise image repository; its enterprise medical storage platform went live in 2005, and its vendor-neutral archive (VNA) went live in 2009, followed by an enterprise viewer in 2010. Chris Tomlinson, MBA, has helped to lead the charge in his role as

As radiology equipment becomes ever more advanced, so-called “structured data” only increases. Advanced 3D and reconstruction visualization generates measurements from multiple angles, and the digital information builds and builds.

As health care becomes increasingly consumer driven, patients are expecting higher levels of service and satisfaction from their providers, including providers of medical imaging. Elliot Silverman, director of imaging services at Palmetto General Hospital (Hialeah, Florida), notes that many patients have only a vague notion of what’s in store when

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