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.

Diagnosing Dementing Disease: A Neurologist’s QI Wish List

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Imaging can play a valuable role in the early diagnosis of dementing disease. In a special-interest session held on November 26, 2012, at the annual meeting of the RSNA in Chicago, Illinois, neurologist Norman Foster, MD, copresented “What Imaging Measurements Are Needed in Clinical Practice?” He explains how imaging can increase physician

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center: Discovering Hidden Data With PACS-embedded AV Tools

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Having a tool kit of advanced visualization tools embedded in the PACS of the Keck Hospital of the University of Southern California (USC) has touched every aspect of the practice of Vinay Duddalwar, MD, FRCR. As abdominal-imaging section chief and director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCCC) imaging department, Duddalwar reports

Mobile Technology and the Radiology Practice: Implementation Strategy

MMP

This article is the fourth in a four-part series. To read part one, click here; to read part two, click here; to read part three, click here.

Scoliosis Imaging in a Single Snap: Blessing Hospital

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When Blessing Hospital, a rural facility in Quincy, Illinois that serves over 250,000 patients annually, added a neurosurgeon who specializes in scoliosis to its roster of over 240 physicians, an addition to its arsenal of radiography equipment was not far behind. Megan Main, RT, a technologist in Blessing Hospital’s radiology department, says, “In

Correlating Industry Trends With Imaging-center Value

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While consideration of the individual facts, circumstances, and local competitive position of each subject imaging center is integral to an accurate business-valuation analysis, a thorough understanding of the state of the imaging industry—particularly the acquisition environment—is crucial to performing an accurate and complete valuation.

Nine Steps to Saving the Profession of Radiology

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

On November 25, at the 2012 RSNA annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, three radiologists presented “Saving Our Profession: How Radiologists Can Thrive in the Era of Health Care Reform.” The suggestions offered by the presenters—Bruce Hillman, MD; Lawrence Muroff, MD; and Norman Beauchamp, MD—varied, but all centered on a common theme: that

Ritz-Carlton Radiology

Another RSNA meeting has come and gone. I started attending the country’s largest medical meeting in 2006, and while I’ve become much better at pacing myself and navigating McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, over the years, I’ve never lost the sense of awe that I feel in sessions and in the exhibit hall. Ours is a remarkable field populated by

A Website Started by Florida Providers Offers One Price-Transparency Solution

SaveOnMedical's early success adding radiology practices speaks to providers desire to offer price transparency for patients.