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.

Marketing and Wellness Initiatives

Building a profitable breast imaging service entails deploying the right technology for a multimodality approach, effectively triaging high-risk women, and taking great overall care of the CEOs of family health

Imaging JVs: Strategic Partners or Just One More Competitor?

Hospital-radiology group JVs are key to preserving and growing imaging market share, but failure to cement strong relationships and expectations from the start is a prescription for failure

The High Price of Low Payment

Prepare for sharp increases in diagnostic imaging costs if CMS prices practices and entrepreneurs out of the imaging center business

The Practice CIO: Driving Business Innovation

CIOs are playing a key role in moving the clinical and business operations of the radiology practice into the 21st century

Ten Steps to ARRA

Charles Christian, CIO, Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes, Ind, identifies the following steps that organizations should take to position themselves to receive their share of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds earmarked for health care IT.

Smart Marketing in a Sick Economy

A recent statement from Moody’s Investors Service, New York, indicates that the health care sector in the United States— traditionally thought to be among the most recession resistant—is now showing significant effects of the economic downturn. Disturbing news is also emerging of patients responding to family budget strains by forgoing important

Building a Turnkey Women's Imaging Service

Building a profitable breast imaging service entails deploying the right technology for a multimodality approach, effectively triaging high-risk women, and taking great overall care of the CEOs of family health

Managing by Benchmarks: Making the Case for Accountability

Benchmarks enable managers to gain knowledge of their organizations and build a culture of accountability

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The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.