Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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17 short-term strategies to address the national radiologist shortage

"This article will serve as a landmark reference for navigating short-term labor challenges in radiology," explains one editorial about the suggestions.

On the frontline of the epidemic of peripheral artery disease (PAD) and related 400 leg amputations per day in the U.S., Kumar Madassery, MD, director of peripheral vascular intervention and critical limb ischemia (CLI) program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, explains there is a glaring health inequities in rural and low income areas of the country.

Peripheral artery disease is out of control in many rural, low income communities

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) leads to more than 400 leg amputations per day in the U.S. Kumar Madassery, MD, discussed the importance of increasing awareness and reaching patients before it is too late. 

Video of Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explaining how the Best in KLAS rates for health informatics vendors are created.

How are the best in KLAS Health IT vendor rankings created?

KLAS conducts annual assessments of all types of healthcare information systems such as PACS, EMRs and cardiovascular information systems and ranks them. Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explains the process of ranking.
 

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Data mining of structured radiology reports yields advantageous insights

Datapoints contained in structured radiology reports can be readily mined to guide decisions around long-term clinical, business and population-health aims. 

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Unavoidability of ‘one-off’ imaging forces radiology to keep one foot in fee-for-service world

Radiology can participate only sporadically in CMS’s current conception of value-based care. Why?

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Social media influencers help build a ‘positive, connected basis for radiology’s thriving future’

Here’s a profile of the quintessential social media influencer working in radiology: male, physician, subspecialized, academic and/or administrative leader ... 

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Imaging AI adds value to patient data but also puts it at heightened risk

Healthcare AI continues its march into clinical departments as well as imaging activities. In the process, it’s only multiplying break-and-entry points seductive to cybercriminals.

87% of mammography centers now have 3D breast imaging systems

Rapid adoption of digital breast tomosynthesis has increasingly made it a new standard of care.

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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