Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

VNA: Building a new foundation for a 9-PACS healthcare ecosystem

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma’s largest healthcare network, recently had to find a solution to a significant problem: its nine hospital PACS were out of space, their software was out of date and the situation was out of control.

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New PACS, same values: A Texas hospital stays focused on its mission with new technology

Sponsored by Merge, an IBM company

When your organization puts values first, those values inform everything, from how patients are treated to the technology you install to provide care.

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Predictions for healthcare in 2016: Service is ascendant

Sponsored by vRad

With radiology continuing to refine its niche in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment, Sruti Nataraja, MPH, managing director at the Advisory Board Company, believes that one of the major themes coming out the past year is, “The consumer-driven health care market has arrived.”

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CMO/CIO forecast for 2016: New breakthroughs in radiologist workflow optimization

Sponsored by vRad

With the possible exception of diffusion-tensor MRI for concussion in athletes, no clinical imaging procedure stands a chance of bumping information technology-with its attendant ripple effects on regulatory compliance and business performance-off radiology’s figurative front page in 2016.

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Creating a unified vision: Widmann and Cermin on Konica Minolta’s Viztek acquisition

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

Industry watchers seemed intrigued but not especially surprised when Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced its acquisition of 100 plus-employee Viztek in early October. The response was understandable, as the fusing was equal parts bold and sensible.

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Masterful image and workflow management, minus the IT staff and capital costs

IRP

Achieving unprecedented clinical and business efficiencies. Winning new business. Brandishing vanguard-level technology prowess while employing zero IT staff. Such are the returns mid-size radiology practices are realizing from their selection of the cloud-based, hardware-agnostic IRP/Plexus Imaging Workflow Management system.

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Radiology myths considered: 7 debunked, 1—commoditization— confirmed

Sponsored by vRad

The time has come for the profession of radiology to embrace a label it has been furiously trying to beat back for years: commoditization. The battle against those who wield it as a pejorative is not just futile, it's also counterproductive.

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Imaging Transaction Trends: Out With Acquisitions, In With Strategic Partnerships

VMG

The pace of consolidation in the medical imaging industry, which could be accurately described as feverish from 2010 to 2013, has cooled.