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Athenahealth was right in the middle of the biggest industry news stories to come out of HIMSS13. While the CommonWell Health Alliance announcement sucked the air out of every other announcement at the conference, athenahealth’s Healthcare Information Technology Code of Conduct proposed a set of five principles they hope can “move the industry foward,” including [...]

A new term spreading (almost like fire) through the healthcare interoperability world is HL7 FHIR, pronounced as “fire.” Here are the Top 5 things I think you should know about this upcoming standard many hope will help solve many current issues in interoperability: FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resource. FHIR combines the best features [...]

In the Healthcare Interoperability Glossary, interoperability is defined as “The ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged.” Even with the industry’s current focus on health information exchange and electronic health records, a truly interoperable healthcare system can at times seem as likely [...]

As many in health IT know, medical software implementation specialists often spend a considerable amount of time working on site at the hospital, working hand-in-hand with the facility’s IT staff to ensure their products are working properly and to make sure the client has a good understand of how the technology can be used. Bernard [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Outlined below is an interview with Joe Moore, CIO, Radiology Consultants of Iowa (RCI). RCI recently was recognized as one of the Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities by Healthcare Imaging & ITmagazine. In this interview, Joe responds to questions on what led RCI to receive this recognition, and his thoughts on connected radiology workflow. What led RCI to [...]