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.

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Prove It

It is time for the specialty to take a proactive role in evidence-based radiology

Thoughtful Management for Hard Times

Historically, financial downturns have not affected the health care industry, but it is not so this time. Patients are deferring care or avoiding treatment completely; uncompensated care and bad debt are rising; and the impact is being felt by all provider organizations, both large and small.

RSNA 2008: Mining the Landscape, Assessing the Exhibits

In assessing the imaging technologies on display at RSNA, an observer provides tools for making critical decisions regarding your capital budget for 2009

Highly Functional Imaging

Great leadership will distinguish winning imaging organizations from those that struggle

Is Custom Reporting Difficult?

Completing a customized report using RIS data-mining software (or some other system) is simply a matter of learning a little technology. For Stefanie Dendy, director of radiology at King’s Daughters Hospital in Yazoo City, Miss, it can be as easy as changing the start-date and end-date fields for the information that you want to correlate.

Day for Night, East for West

Teleradiology permeates the specialty as practices cross state, regional, and global boundaries to purchase and practice radiology

Data Mining: Imaging Executives Crunch the Numbers

RIS data, keyed to billing, can be analyzed to improve competitive capability and pare inefficiency to the nub

Further TC Cuts Ahead?

Due to inequities in payment methodology, are providers of imaging services overpaid?

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Health Imaging
American College of Radiology announces significant expansion of Lung Cancer Screening Registry

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.

Health Imaging
AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%

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

Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

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