Archive for the ‘Radiology Workflow’ Category

Radiology groups and imaging centers have been on the leading technology edge for many years. The leadership principles of radiology CEOs and CIOs shine in how they approach: Documenting and streamlining workflows Selecting and implementing technology to enable the workflows Measuring the results and focusing on how to continue to enhance the workflows The partnership [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The RSNA 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting is set to begin this weekend in Chicago with a great deal of energy and anticipation. The past few weeks leading up to the event have been loaded with questions about Meaningful Use, EHR connectivity and HIE participation, from imaging centers, hospitals and other healthcare organizations around [...]

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 [...]

In health IT today, there are many new applications being implemented. Getting the implementations right relies on getting the workflows right first. Workflows need to drive technology decisions and implementations. Streamlining workflows have been discussion topics as a way to gain efficiencies and do more less. The focus should not necessarily be on the latter [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]