Radiology

Radiology Workflow: Integrated

May 11, 2011

The goal of healthcare IT is to ensure all systems and applications within a healthcare system work smoothly together for organized, seamless data flow. The first step to achieving such a goal is to understand your current workflow. The technology used in imaging centers and radiology practices, in particular, is rapidly evolving, and the technology [...]

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Radiology Strategy & Workflow – Blue Ocean Style

January 14, 2011

The concept behind Blue Ocean Strategy has been in the market for a few years now. With the changes happening in radiology (and health IT, in general), it may be a good time to re-visit the thoughts and practices around utilizing a Blue Ocean strategy. For a quick overview of Blue Ocean Strategy, the people [...]

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Streamlining a Radiology Practice: Balancing Brand & Efficiency

November 10, 2010

Positioning a radiology practice can be quite a challenge. Almost all practices offer a quality of diagnostic technology that is more or less standard across the industry. Therefore, many practices position themselves based on professional credentials such as board certifications and fellowship-trained radiologists. These characteristics are great, and in all reality, a necessity in today’s [...]

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Part 1: State of Radiology, Interview with Joe Moore, CIO, RCI

October 11, 2010

What is going on right now in radiology? In general across the industry, there seems to be a lot of consolidation of groups. I think the big concerns, or what people are focusing on, is the ability to provide 24/7 service, subspecialty capabilities, and being able to even out the workflow. There is a lot [...]

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Part 2: HIE Activity & Radiology, Interview with Joe Moore, CIO, RCI

October 7, 2010

Do you have any plans to participate in the Iowa HIE? We were recently approached by the state of Iowa to participate in a beta program for assessing readiness. We are already participating at the ground floor level of the Iowa health information exchange (HIE) through the Iowa Department of Public Health, the IDPH. We [...]

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Part 3: HITECH & Radiology, Interview with Joe Moore, CIO, RCI

October 4, 2010

How is HITECH and Meaningful Use impacting your radiology operations? When you look at the requirements of meaningful use most specialists are completely cut out. Radiologists don’t order prescriptions in the traditional sense. They might order contrast for a CT exam, but not a prescription. In all of our electronic systems, we have no way [...]

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Part 4: Integration & Radiology, Interview with Joe Moore, CIO, RCI

October 3, 2010

What has your experience been like using an integration engine? It’s been spectacular. I’ve said it many times before, without the integration engine, we wouldn’t be nearly as successful as we are today. We wouldn’t have nearly the amount of information to help us do our work today. The fact that we were able to [...]

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Part 5: The Radiology Economy, Interview with Joe Moore, CIO, RCI

October 2, 2010

How has the economy impacted the radiology industry? We’re like everybody else; we’re getting hammered both from the government and from the payers. The payers have the deck stacked in their favor, of course, both by the government and by themselves just with their sheer size and lack of competition. It has nothing to do [...]

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Part 4: Integration & Radiology, Interview with Joe Moore, CIO, RCI

September 30, 2010

What has your experience been like using an integration engine? It’s been spectacular. I’ve said it many times before, without the integration engine, we wouldn’t be nearly as successful as we are today. We wouldn’t have nearly the amount of information to help us do our work today. The fact that we were able to [...]

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Part 2: HIE Activity & Radiology, Interview with Joe Moore, CIO, RCI

September 29, 2010

Do you have any plans to participate in the Iowa HIE? We were recently approached by the state of Iowa to participate in a beta program for assessing readiness. We are already participating at the ground floor level of the Iowa health information exchange (HIE) through the Iowa Department of Public Health, the IDPH. We [...]

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The Important Role of a Radiology CIO

September 25, 2010

Healthcare CIOs, in general, carry a significant responsibility load. There are many systems and constituencies which must come together efficiently and productively to ensure that patients receive the highest standard of care. Healthcare CIOs are enablers, supporting a wide-range of initiatives simultaneously prioritized by almost every department in a given hospital or radiology group. For [...]

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Build Your Radiology Brand with IT Infrastructure

September 22, 2010

In Advance for Imaging online magazine, there is an article entitled Your Radiology Practice: Build a Better Brand from the Inside Out. It is an article that I wrote about a year ago after reading various discussion threads and interactions about marketing a radiology group or practice. Many radiology groups are leading the way in [...]

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Lean or McDonald’s: Is the Concept Applicable to Radiology Workflow?

August 19, 2010

A post on the KevinMD.com site caught my eye. The title:  Why radiology should become more like McDonald’s. Attention-getting, yes. Applicable, maybe. The article was written by Paul Dorio, MD, an interventional radiologist. In reading his article, it seemed to be directed toward two concepts. The first concept is that radiology practices need to communicate [...]

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