Experience Stories

Love What You Do

iCRco

One can’t help but seek significance in the death of someone as iconic as Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs. Of all the things that he meant to those of us who have made our careers in the business world, among the most important and lasting, I believe, is that he had a unique and highly visible passion and love for his chosen path. Yes, he was a

Evolution of a Technology: Long-bone Imaging

iCRco

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