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Let’s Play Ball! Radiologists Joining Multidisciplinary Teams
Some days, radiologists might feel like they’re on their own. Like an athlete training during the off-season, they’re working out to prepare for the season’s start—doing sprints, lifting weights and...
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Q & A with Erkan Akyuz, President of McKesson Technology Solutions’ Imaging &...
Editor’s Note: In May 2014, Erkan Akyuz joined McKesson Technology Solutions as president of Imaging and Workflow Solutions (IWS). In his role as president, Akyuz interacts with customers on a daily...
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Proving Value: What CMMI Level 5 Means for Imaging Software
When it comes to software development, CMMI Level 5 is the gold standard, taking five years on average to achieve and involving the highest possible performance. Developed by the CMMI Institute, the...
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Transitioning to Value-based Care: What Will Imaging’s Role Be?
Editor’s note: Despite rising healthcare costs, inconsistent quality of patient care in healthcare organizations has necessitated a crucial shift in the delivery of medical care. Systems that seek...
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No Patient Left Behind: Communicating with Elderly Patients
As healthcare organizations develop strategies to engage with patients, a number of challenges arise —especially when it comes to communicating with elderly patients. Almost 25 percent of elderly...
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6 Ways to Combine 3D Printing with Medical Imaging
Toys, shoes, dresses, musical instruments, fossil replicas, drones, cars and even houses are all amongst the many things being 3D printed today – there is even a specially designed 3D printer being...
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McKesson Imaging and Workflow Solutions Group Named Company of the Year by...
Sometimes, you’ve got to get creative. Like when you’re asked to help providers increase quality of care and help improve patient outcomes while reducing cost. Indeed, we’ve found that creativity is...
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Do the Math: Imaging’s New Growth Equation
When we study dramatic failures like those that bring down power lines, we usually discover multiple issues. It’s the same with imaging — numerous forces have combined to decrease profitability,...
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5 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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Applying 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...
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Making 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...
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Next 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....
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Making 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...
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Value-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...
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Why 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...
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How 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...
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How 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...
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Effective 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...
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Unlocking 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...
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Enterprise 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,...
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