In 2007, Metro Imaging, a radiology group with five outpatient imaging centers in St Louis, Missouri, launched a program in which patients could opt to receive their preliminary results following their exams, in as few as five to 10 minutes. Harley Hammerman, MD, CEO of Metro Imaging, says, “When patients come in, they are given cards with their

For 2012, James Reinertsen, MD, CEO of the Reinertsen Group, was invited by the ACR® to deliver the Moreton Lecture at the college’s Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, DC. Reinertsen, a former hospital executive who now educates hospitals and health systems on issues of quality and safety, presented “Possible or

Adams Diagnostic Imaging (ADI), founded in 2006, is an outpatient imaging center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that provides an array of subspecialty services—with just one radiologist on staff. Rahul Smith, executive director of the center, says, “We have one medical director on staff: a board-certified nuclear-medicine radiologist who interprets

How much would an extra $44,000 government stipend mean to your radiology practice? Would it be enough to cover the hassle of diving into the attestation to meaningful use of health IT? To date, many practices have declined to participate, according to David Avrin, MD, PhD, of the University of California–San Francisco. On September 9, in San

While the news crews have moved on to coverage of the final rule for stage 2 meaningful use, the reality is this: The vast majority of radiology practices still has not met the stage 1 requirements. Their greatest challenge is likely to be understanding how the rule applies to their practice setting, and radiology practices are interpreting that in

On August 23, CMS released the final rule for stage 2 meaningful use of health IT. Unlike the stage 1 rule, the stage 2 rule contains myriad radiology-specific portions that might have radiologists in a state of confusion, but things could be simpler than they seem. RadInformatics.com recently conferred with Alberto Goldszal, PhD, MBA, CIO of

InMedica forecasts the world market for PACS, RIS, and CVIS to grow by more than $1 billion over the next 5 years.

Cloud-based technologies have been relatively slow to penetrate the health-care IT market, but several advances in technology—as well as federal programs that encourage the adoption of interoperable solutions—are changing that, according to Vijay Ramanathan, CEO and cofounder of RamSoft Inc. “The biggest trend that is driving cloud computing, in