ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 22 — Regional One Health (Memphis, Tenn.) has implemented Carestream Health’s Clinical Collaboration Platform (see video link) that includes enterprise imaging, vendor-neutral archiving and Vue Motion universal viewer.

Making significant workflow changes at large academic medical centers can be quite difficult, but a team of researchers at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville, Tennessee, were able to do just that. Lead author Richard G. Abramson, MD, and colleagues shared their success in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, providing an in-depth look at what they changed and the impact it had on the entire radiology department.

Mach7 Technologies, a Burlington, Vermont-based healthcare company focused on enterprise imaging, has hired Michael Jackman to be its new CEO. Jackman is a veteran of the healthcare IT industry with almost three decades of hands-on experience.

A team at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston recently reduced its imaging (IMG) codes—which are used internally to define and keep track of procedures as they pass through various information systems—from more than 1,300 to fewer than 850. How'd they do it? 

For small rural hospitals such as McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla., an on-staff radiologist is a luxury. After losing its single in-house radiologist, the facility floated between several different teleradiology providers before finally landing on vRad—largely due to vRad’s strong breast health portfolio.

The radiology job market has had its fair share of ups and downs, as one can see by simply scanning the last 15 years of data from Merritt Hawkins, a popular physician search firm. In 2003, radiology was the No. 1 most requested search assignment at Merritt Hawkins. 

The shift to value-based care is looking like less of a transition and more of a reality for imaging departments.

At Akron Children’s Hospital, the road to fully realized patient-centered care for kids leads to a scenario in which all patient information—including consent forms, admissions documents, diagnostic images and multimedia files—is readily accessible through the facility’s EHR.