5 Steps to Achieve Interoperability in Your Healthcare Enterprise
Healthcare’s digital transformation is progressing, but it’s far from complete. The lack of effective data sharing is becoming an urgent strategic issue for C-suite leaders, who need a complete data...
View ArticleHIMSS 2018 Preview: Security, Business Intelligence & Interoperability
Technological breakthroughs are transforming healthcare, but whether that transformation improves patient care or not, is another matter. Figuring out how to leverage new technologies in a way that...
View ArticleA Healthcare Minute: Protecting Systems and Patient Data [Video]
Editor’s Note: The following article was recently published on ITN website and is reprinted here with permission. CHALLENGE Healthcare depends on patient trust — trust in the physician, in the system,...
View ArticleA Healthcare Minute: Developing an Enterprise Strategy [Video]
Editor’s Note: The following article was recently published on ITN website and is reprinted here with permission. CHALLENGE Many of the multiple and disparate information technologies that now handle...
View ArticleA Healthcare Minute: Consolidating Healthcare IT Systems
Editor’s Note: The following article was recently published on ITN website and is reprinted here with permission. CHALLENGE Hospital consolidation is gaining momentum. At the end of 2016, Becker’s...
View ArticleA Healthcare Minute: Why Interoperability Is Crucial
Editor’s Note: The following article was recently published on ITN website and is reprinted here with permission. Between 2010 and 2013, U.S. hospitals spent $47 billion annually on information...
View ArticleBeyond the Repository: Clinical Benefits of a VNA
A vendor neutral archive (VNA) can be more than an image repository. When implemented as part of an overall enterprise strategy, it can enhance workflow, increase productivity, and improve patient...
View ArticleWhy Change Management Is Crucial for Maximizing the Potential of Health IT...
Most organizations fail at innovation because they fail at change. Truly effective healthcare software has the power to transform your business processes, workflow and workplace for the better. Many of...
View ArticleEnterprise Imaging Inspirations: How to Explore, Invent and Transform...
It’s an exciting time to be in radiology. Advances in enterprise imaging, artificial intelligence, data and analytics have the potential to transform patient care. With the right infrastructure,...
View ArticleUnlocking Efficiency Gains Through Cross-Site Reporting of Diagnostic Imaging...
Curious about the health system in the UK? David Howard of Change Healthcare, argues that cross-site reporting is key to unlocking transformation within the NHS, but warns this is dependent upon the...
View ArticleEffective Healthcare Leadership During Times of Change
Addressing provider-change fatigue. Determining IT investments. Doing more with less. It’s challenging for healthcare leaders to juggle major decisions and daily management tasks while remaining...
View ArticleHow Mobile Radiology and Cardiology Help Improve Patient Care
Nearly two-thirds of Americans own a smartphone, and 62 percent of them have used their phone in the last year to look up information about health conditions. As both patients and physicians rely on...
View ArticleHow Better Communication Helps Prepare Healthcare Systems for Value-Based...
Even though value-based care is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today, a survey of health system CEOs found that 37 percent are still in the investigative stage. However, value-based care...
View ArticleWhy Interoperability in Diagnostic Imaging Matters and How To Achieve It
The first x-ray ever – of its inventor’s wife’s hand, showing her bones and wedding ring – was in film format, back in 1895. Today, patients share medical images with their physicians via CD, or discs...
View ArticleValue-Based Care: First Steps to Transition in 2015
The healthcare industry’s ongoing shift to value-based reimbursement is affecting healthcare organizations of all sizes and specialties. How to best transition to value-based care is a challenge for...
View ArticleMaking Virtualization a Reality: UnityPoint Health and the Virtual Server...
Editor’s Note: This article by Kayt Suke was originally published by Healthcare Informatics and is reprinted here with permission. As larger healthcare systems continue to grow, often merging with...
View ArticleNext generation archives: Digging into data
Editor’s Note: This article was written by Evan Godt, Editor of Health Imaging, and is reprinted here with permission. Early medical image archiving was focused on one main goal: the display of images....
View ArticleMaking Use of Dark Matter: Radiology and Big Data
How can we improve the relationship between computers and radiologists? How can we make use of dark matter (all the information currently not being mined from our images)? How can we combine data sets...
View ArticleApplying Evidence-Based Predictive Modeling to Cardiac Procedures
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures, commonly known as coronary angioplasty, rank among the most common surgeries performed in U.S. hospitals, with an estimated 2.48 million procedures...
View Article5 Predictions for Medical Imaging in 2015
Each year, about 45 percent of Americans set goals, make resolutions and strive to start the year off on a positive note. In enterprise medical imaging we too are looking at the year ahead and...
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