Building the Fully Loaded HIE: Images on Board

February/March

2010

With a health IT stimulus package valued at $19 billion1 in play, one of the least controversial subjects in the health-reform debate is the potential of health information exchanges (HIEs) to lower health care costs while improving efficiency and quality of care. A handful of players in health IT have been developing some form of exchange for a decade or more (supported, in part, by the occasional grant), but images typically have not been included.

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February
2010

Interoperability: An Open-source Toolkit


Within radiology, interoperability and sharing information are among our most challenging and important tasks.

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February
2010

MRI: The Next Generation


MRI has come a long way since its inception, and it has yet to cease evolving. New developments continue to surface, bringing with them changes in radiology practice patterns and opportunities to bolster revenues by attracting new patient populations.

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February
2010

From Here to Eternity: Extending the Franchise Through Distributed-reading Solutions


Few developments in radiology have been more productive (or disruptive) than the advent of PACS. To PACS, radiology owes its ability to increase productivity dramatically during the past 10 years, thereby conserving income levels at a time of diminishing reimbursement.

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February
2010

The 20 Largest Academic Radiology Practices


Radiology Business Journal brings you this inaugural list of the largest academic radiology practices with our usual caveat: We know that this list is not complete.

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February
2010

The CIO Perspective: Issues in Image Management


Gone are the days when radiology managed image data in a silo: CIOs are engaged in imaging informatics.

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Priors >>

High Hurdles for HITECH Dollars

The indefinite path to qualifying for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act funds just came into greater focus, but it’s not to everyone’s liking.


An Urgent Case for Quality

Gary Becker, MD, outgoing president of the RSNA, read members the equivalent of the riot act in his presidential address on November 29 in Chicago, Illinois, kicking off the 2009 meeting and jump-starting the quality-improvement movement in radiology.


Implications of Reform for Hospitals: Seismic or Subtle?

Hospitals are keeping a wary eye on Washington, and on several key payor trends with major implications for imaging service lines, for good reason.


Departments >>

Relationships Gone Wild

All across the country, we are seeing the dissolution of long-time hospital–practice relationships that are part of the community fabric


A Business Like No Other

Observations, predictions, and prescriptions for the imaging-center industry


When the FDA Sneezes…

Whipped to an overblown froth by media attention, the radiation-safety issue will, for better or worse, get the attention that it demands




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