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.

Appropriateness Criteria Effective in Reducing Unnecessary Imaging Exams

Appropriateness criteria developed in 2009 by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) perform “fairly well” for certain indications, reducing the number of inappropriate imaging exams, reveals a study presented at ASNC's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado last week.

Evolution of a Technology: Long-bone Imaging

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When Leo Reina, president and CEO of Reina Imaging (Chicago, Illinois), a radiography repair and manufacturing company, first entered the business 32 years ago, long-bone imaging was still largely the purview of chiropractors and orthopedists. “Chiropractors would do it looking for curvature of the spine,” he recalls, “and as prosthetics became

Developing an Imaging Strategic Plan: Intermountain Healthcare

VMG

Exactly what portion of the hospital bottom line comes from imaging? It’s a straightforward question, but even hospital executives occasionally grope for an answer.

New Payment Models and the Radiology Practice

MMP

This article is third in a four-part series about health-care reform’s impact on radiology. To read the first article in the series, click here; to read the second, click here.

Standards 2011–2012: What The Joint Commission Wants From Hospital Imaging Departments

Radisphere

The Joint Commission’s 2011–2012 standards will bring changes for hospital radiology departments, according to Judith M. Atkins, RN, MSN, president and CEO of McKenna Consulting in Charleston, West Virginia, and Robert A. Wise, MD, medical advisor to the Joint Commission’s Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation. Atkins outlined some of these

Leveraging Imaging Technology to Enhance the Patient Experience: Tenet Healthcare

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

In 2006, Tenet Healthcare Corp of Dallas, Texas, was operating 20 outpatient imaging centers across the country, and it was watching its outpatient imaging volume continue to slide. Dale Skrnich, senior director of outpatient services for the organization, explains that many of the imaging centers were being operated as hospital departments; “They

A Clearer View: Enriching Radiologist Workflow

Sponsored by Microsoft

The next frontier in radiologist workflow won’t be another enhancement to hanging protocols, a faster processor, or an improved graphical user interface, Eliot Siegel, MD, and Woojin Kim, MD, predict. Instead, these two experts in radiology informatics are looking outside the PACS and its workstations to offer radiologists a clearer view of