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.

drchrono’s free EHR draws investors from AngelList; raises $2.69M

In a recent announcement by drchrono Inc., the creator of a free electronic health record (EHR) platform on the iPad, iPhone and cloud, the company reportedly raised an additional $2.69M in convertible debt funding from its AngelList profile. In addition to the $4.13M previously raised, the company has amasses a total of  $6.77M in funding. The goal of the drchrono free EHR is to allow doctors and patients to easily connect with one another and share critical data.

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Overcoming reimbursement hurdles for single-site and multi-platform imaging operators

VMG

Nationwide, imaging operators are beginning to feel the impact of reimbursement cuts from the 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“MPFS”) primarily associated with Computed Tomography (“CT”) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (“MRI”) modalities.

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A How to: Meaningfully using business intelligence

Zotec

Running a radiology practice naturally forces clinicians to divide time between treating their patients and watching after their business.

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MU’s push for CDS: How will it impact Radiology?

RamSoft

As the federal meaningful use incentive program has progressed, its direct impact on the practice of radiology has intensified through the addition of provisions specific to the utilization and sharing of medical images. 

Adoption and interoperability: What imaging IT can learn from Amazon, banking and travel

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

It’s a question often posed by thought-leaders and end-users in the imaging community: What prevents health IT from working as seamlessly, and with as much interoperability, as the technology that drives banking, travel or e-commerce?

Radiology of Associates Tallahassee Automates Teleradiology workflow with RamSoft PowerServer PACS

April 8, 2014 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1961 by Drs D.J. McCulloh and W.F. Lindsey, Radiology Associates of Tallahassee has been serving Tallahassee and surrounding areas for the past 50 years. They have 17 Board certified radiologists on staff with sub-specialties in all areas of diagnostic and interventional radiology for a combined total of over 250 years of experience in Tallahassee. They were seeking a solution to automate their teleradiology business and selected PowerServer PACS for its breadth of functionality and ability to expand to their future business needs. 

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.