Valerie Ciminera, a manager in radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in Philadelphia, describes the large facility as comparable to a small city, with a lot of ground to cover between buildings. The department of radiology at HUP uses 10 analog portable radiography systems to image an average of 225 inpatients per day at

Neale Pashley, operations manager for Medical Management Professionals (MMP), found himself on the front lines of the CMS Acute Care Episode (ACE) Demonstration when a radiology practice with which he worked became a participant. “What the radiology industry should prepare for, more than anything else, is the impact this might have on utilization,”

As radiology practices around the country become increasingly reliant on business analytics and intelligence for decision-making support, the time is ripe to begin devoting additional attention to refining the processes by which their measurements are generated, according to Bill Pickart, CEO of Integrated Medical Partners (IMP). “It is imperative

After consulting for the practice for several years, two years ago, Robert Cannistra joined Radiologic Associates PC (Middletown, New York) as its director of IT. Like many in the informatics field, Cannistra says, he was surprised by the unique challenges that health-care providers face when he first began consulting for hospitals and health-care

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