Editor’s note: Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle’s commentary is reprinted from the June/July 2009 issue of Radiology Business Journal.

After a false start, RBMs have come on strong, but the advent of computerized physician order entry leads some to believe there are better ways to control imaging utilization

Hurried along by economic hard times, consumerism is making an impact on diagnostic imaging choices, and savvy practices are responding

Do you remember medical imaging before PACS? There were images stored in different ways, in different places, at different times; images were lost, and images sat in stacks, waiting to be filed. Hours were spent retrieving them or searching in vain. It was frustrating and inefficient. By creating one common, shared service for image storage, PACS

In a span of one month in late 2008, the following four incidents were reported. In one case, a practice representative on the East Coast was making the rounds to shore up CT referrals. She reported that the referrals from one office had dropped dramatically because the referrer’s faxes would not go through. In another incident, a practice

The cost of health IT ownership is projected to be nearly twice what hospitals and independent health clinics spend on IT technology and software in 2009, according to Mike Davis, vice president, HIMSS Analytics™, Chicago, Illinois. He shared trends from a database that includes 32,000 health care providers in the United States and Canada during a

Recognizing that outpatient imaging revenue is far too important to the bottom line to forfeit the business to aggressive and nimble entrepreneurs, hospitals and health systems have moved aggressively into their communities in recent years with their own outpatient imaging center initiatives. Radiology Business Journal invited executives from

Be aware of clinical, customer-service, and medicolegal issues in devising an image-storage solution for MDCT studies—and know that the interpretation tools are in transition