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.

Frost and Sullivan Report Predicts Market Growth Acceleration in CEE and Russia

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Medical Imaging Market Outlook for CEE and Russia, finds that the market earned revenues of $1.42 billion in 2010 and estimates this to reach $2.34 billion in 2015. The research covers general X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, molecular imaging, mammography and picture

lifeIMAGE Releases API to Enable Image Exchange For Existing HIT Systems

Massachusetts-based lifeIMAGE says it is releasing certain open application programming interfaces (APIs) for healthcare information technologies (HIT) and imaging devices to enable secure exchange of medical images and related patient records directly from their software.

UPMC-Highmark Battle Gets Accelerated Timeline

The ongoing public spectacle that is the UPMC/Highmark power struggle for the patient dollars of Pittsburgh will proceed in earnest, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Connecticut Widow Sues Rad for Her Husband's Wrongful Death

Dissatisfied with the limited sanctions levied against New Milford, CT radiologist Michael Waldman, Diane D’Amato, the widow of a patient who died in his care, has filed a wrongful death suit.

Siemens Wins $44M Patent Infringement Judgment for PET-CT Crystals

The Supreme Court ruled today to uphold a $44 million patent-infringement judgment in favor of Siemens over the manufacture of certain crystals used in its PET-CT devices.

Cash Payment Arrangements Send Mixed Messages to Patients

As financial resources become dearer for everyone in the healthcare industry—from payers to providers to patients—leverage gained at any point in the system usually requires a release of pressure elsewhere within it.

Health Care Cost Institute Sparks Debate with Landmark Data Set

As the volume of patient data that forms the foundation of the recently released Health Care Cost and Utilization Report: 2010 carries enough weight to stand on its own, all that's left for people on the sidelines to do is comment on its usage.

Inland Imaging to Spin off HIT Subsidiary, Nuvodia

Citing a growing demand for nationwide HIT services, Inland Imaging of Spokane, WA announced plans this week to spin off an integrated IT service and image archiving subsidiary, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reported.