In early May, the ACR® submitted comments to CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT on the proposed rules¹ for stage 2 of the meaningful-use incentive program. The proposal from the federal agencies, released March 7, is much more inclusive of radiology than the rules for stage 1 were, with new objectives that include

Three hospitals using two separate PACS are a recipe for headaches, and Steven C. Horii, MD, is determined to find relief. As clinical director in the Medical Informatics Group at Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Horii wants his enterprise imaging platform to boost crucial connectivity, while maintaining most of the

The modern picture archiving and communication system (PACS) has done an amazing job of organizing a massive amount of digital information. However, PACS manufacturers focused so much energy on archiving and communicating that the mechanics of moving that data often fell by the wayside.

Brian M. Barbeito, MBA, MSHA, heads a radiology group that deals primarily with hospitals, but his Memphis-based company, Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics, also covers numerous outside-read businesses, which offer outpatient imaging services. Getting the right images to the right radiologists has not been easy, but technology has helped. Rob Sumter

It depends on how many different ways you want to measure it, says Daryl Eber, MD, co-founder and CMO of itMD.

Change is rarely easy, but Mark Stolper, executive vice president and CFO of RadNet, Inc (Los Angeles, California), says that it does not have to be painful. Communicating a workable vision and working with existing stakeholders can make all the difference because an acquisition has many moving parts. With 233 imaging centers now operating under

Progressive Radiology was facing a problem familiar to many radiology practices: Hospital IT policies were interfering with its ability to deliver images and reports to referrers. Dominic Mezzanotte is director of information systems at the practice, which has 10 locations in Maryland. “We struggled with some of our top referrers, who are part of a

Lingering doubts about the image quality generated by open-bore MRI technology have, perhaps, unfairly held up its adoption. When a pair of radiology organizations set up the equivalent of an MRI Pepsi® challenge in their respective practice environments, staff members at both locations were surprised at the response.