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.

Major Hospital Purchases Carestream’s Vue PACS Upgrade, Vue Motion Image Viewer and Lesion Management Module

Latest PACS Platform Also Offers Ability to Integrate Mammography Into General Radiology Workflow     ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 10 — Major Hospital (Shelbyville, Ind.), purchased and installed an upgrade to the newest CARESTREAM Vue PACS to benefit from advanced features and options that include Carestream’s Vue Motion image viewer, lesion management application and a mammography module that will integrate mammography exams into the general radiology reading workflow. 

New Survey Data Confirm Significant Drop in US Uninsured Rate; Lowest Since 2008

New survey data indicate that the percentage of uninsured American adults has dropped from 20.5 percent to 15.8 percent between September 2013 and mid-March 2014. The survey results, released this week by the Rand American Life Panel, suggest that the newly insured have secured health insurance coverage from multiple sources including the new marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as employer-sponsored coverage and Medicaid. 

RamSoft Partners with LogicPlus to offer PowerServer Cloud in Asia-Pacific Region

RamSoft, a leader in RIS, PACS and Teleradiology software solutions, today announces their partnership with LogicPlus to offer cloud-based PowerServer RIS and PACS technology to key countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.

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Who Owns This Problem?

When something goes wrong, the first question that occurs to most people is who owns this problem? Often, the answer is shockingly simple: If you are asking that question, it is likely that you have an ownership stake.

Another Day Another Delay

The Obama administration will extend the March 31 open enrollment deadline for people who say they tried to sign-up for coverage on the new healthcare exchanges but failed to complete the process on time. 

Digital mammography brightens outlook for 2014 capital budgets

In a new report from research firm MedPanel, capital spending is expected to slow in 2014, with just 30 percent of hospitals planning to increase capital expenditures and 18 percent planning a decrease. The firm surveyed US hospital CEOs and CFOs to understand capital expenditure trends in the market as reimbursement rates continue to be cut and uncertainty stemming from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) affect the market.

Shimadzu receives FDA clearance for three digital angiography systems

TORRANCE, CA – March 24, 2014 – Shimadzu Medical Systems USA has announced that a new digital angiography system family has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These are the ceiling-mounted Trinias, the floor-mounted Trinias, and the Biplane models.

Big data, healthcare and ethics—if I could just have more data…

If you think we are living in a world that runs on gasoline, or natural resources, you’re wrong. We run on information. Companies today collect all kinds of information, for B2B purposes, and more importantly, for consumer marketing purposes. Retailers know what we buy, what we like to eat, when we go out, and where are real-time, when we check in on facebook or foursquare. Now they want even more. In a Wall Street Journal Report on “Big Data”, experts took a look at what information companies don’t have, but would like to.  And healthcare providers weighed in on what they want—a real-time rundown on their patients’ vital statistics to get an early warning about potential health problems.