Two weeks to rebuild radiology services: How Prime Healthcare renovated reading, RIS and RCM

Few dilemmas rattle a hospital executive like this one: The radiology group is leaving, and soon.

For Prime Healthcare, that news came with its acquisition of either Illinois hospitals in March 2025. The group reading their studies was disbanding. The hospitals at the time were managing four PACS and two EHRs at sites over 100 miles apart. More than 3,000 studies were waiting to be read—and Prime had less than two weeks to act.

Some 18 months later, the leaders who managed that transition share how they made it happen. The good, the bad and how other groups, like Prime did, can turn on one system to replace PACS, RIS, RCM and gain access to on-site radiologists and interventionalists as well as subspecialty trained teleradiologists 24/7. Join them Thursday, Nov. 5, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time for a Radiology Business webinar, plus a live Q&A. Bring your questions!

Here’s our panel:

• Sunil Patel, MD, MBA, Regional Chief Medical Office, Prime Healthcare, Illinois. 
• Deepa Sheth, MD, Director of Breast Imaging for CIVIE at Prime Healthcare. 
• Dhruv Chopra, Founder and CEO, CIVIE and RadPod.

Mary Tierney, our VP of Editorial and Chief Content Strategist for Radiology Business, moderates this lively discussion.

You’ll come away with:

• A practical sense of how to stage a multisite go-live when time is short.
• A clearer view of how pay-per-read radiology groups work and how they compare with traditional practices and teleradiology.
• Insight into which coverage costs a hospital can influence.
• Ideas for keeping remote radiologists connected to the clinicians who depend on them.

Join us! Here’s how you can register: From Fragmentation to Integration: How AI-native radiology is transforming the traditional practice and operations model.