A Manhattan hospital used Six Sigma to identify breakdowns in its emergency CT workflow, increasing patient throughput after addressing communication breakdowns and software incompatibilities. Lennox Hill Hospital's experiences with the process improvement method were documented in an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Healthcare’s new reality could be a return to pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) policies and turning Medicaid into a state block grant program after Donald Trump’s upset victory in the 2016 presidential election.

Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona, recently installed new radiology equipment in its outpatient clinic including ultrasound equipment, a CT machine, direct capture x-ray rooms and a bone densitometry unit. 

Argus Radiology will offer teleradiology services in Arkansas, bringing its business model centered on familiarity between client staff and radiologists.

For the 30 radiologists who staff the medical imaging department at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, the heart of continuous quality improvement lies nearly hidden away in a previously untapped vein of “latent learning” opportunities.

Imaging centers and public health organizations may need to devote additional resources to provide access to follow-ups after a positive mammography, according to Louise Henderson, PhD, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Department of Radiology.

One of the latest offerings in vRad’s service portfolio would make for a good chapter in How to Do More with Less in Radiology, should such a book ever get written. The new program is the teleradiology giant’s Virtual Resident Workflow (VRW), and the title of the chapter on it would be something along the lines of: “While You’re Interpreting, You Could Be Teaching Too.”

CMS released its final ruling on the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) at the beginning of November, and radiologists will benefit from the changes.