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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In September, ProScan Imaging, which owns a network of 25 imaging centers in seven states, became the first organization in the world to install the high-field Echelon Oval 1.5T MRI system from Hitachi Medical Systems. Featuring an oval-shaped bore that measures 74 cm, the Echelon Oval reflects the growing trend toward patient centricity in imaging

No health-care enterprise wants to make an enormous investment in technology for image storage, only to find it outdated and in need of an upgrade. The vendor-neutral archive has been proposed as a natural antidote to this problem, but an archive alone is, increasingly, not enough—particularly for large academic institutions that intend to improve

For 2012, CMS proposed a reduction in the cost-of-capital (or interest-rate) assumption used in the development of the cost-of-equipment estimates that are included in the practice-expense component of the RVU calculations. Historically, CMS has used an interest-rate assumption of 11%. Based on the current prime rate and maximum interest rates for