When Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced an aggressive timeline for the transition from volume- to value-based payment earlier this year, it was the equivalent of reading healthcare the riot act: The status quo in healthcare is now the enemy.

Jan Oldenburg, senior manager in Ernst and Young’s healthcare practice, had come to the annual meeting of the Health Information and Management Systems Society in Orlando, Fla., to deliver a lecture on “What Do Consumers Really Want from Personal Health IT?”

Recognizing the explosion in clinical factors affecting the outcome and diagnosis of disease, Lincoln Berland, MD, played an instrumental role in the development of clinical criteria beginning in 2006. As then-chair of the ACR Abdominal Imaging Committee, and with the support of the ACR, he organized the ACR Incidental Findings Committee.

When Medicare launched its Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in 2007, the agency might just as well have come right out and told physicians: Show your quality or forfeit your profitability.

The ubiquity of smartphones and tablets has transformed the way physicians can access healthcare information, including imaging. Vendors have tried to step up to the plate by offering myriad solutions to display data on mobile devices, but providers and their vendor partners would be wise to not lose focus on workflows.

How do you create an enterprise imaging strategy to manage data in 20 different centers across the country? How about 115 locations? While the challenge may seem more daunting with a more expansive network, the Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) found that a single vendor neutral archive (VNA) solution could not only work for both scenarios, but actually enable the growth in the first place.

Despite working with some of the most cutting-edge technology, radiologists often get shortchanged in one specific area: reading room design. Fortunately, those looking to improve their reading environment don’t need to start a major construction project. Instead, the latest diagnostic display from healthcare visualization company Barco can address a number of needs with a single solution.

In ancient Roman times, all roads led to Rome. From one monument in central Rome, all roads began and distances were measured. Today, the patient is at the center of care—with success measured in wellness, improved outcomes, reduced variability, increased quality and higher patient engagement and patient satisfaction scores.