Healthcare systems’ operational costs continue to spiral out of control, increasing in all aspects of the organization. With a rapidly changing industry environment and evolving patient populations, GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is showcasing a suite of new and enhanced offerings at the 2015 AAMI Annual Conference and Expo to help address these challenges.

FORE Support Services, a premier developer of health care financial process automation, has announced the launch of its AuthPal automated prior authorization technology. The announcement was made today at the June Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) 2015 Radiology Summit Conference.

Images are being generated everywhere throughout an enterprise. Are you prepared?

National Harbor, Md.—Manually maintaining and updating CT scan protocols can be a Herculean task, with protocols extracted in Excel or XML format that can run 25,000 lines long. A tool to help parse these protocols would be a boon to many providers, and that’s just what a group from the University of Pennsylvania set out to create.

National Harbor, Md.—Patients want access to their imaging reports, but chances are they won’t be able to make heads or tails of many of the terms used to communicate findings. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania saw a need to make reports more patient-centric.

National Harbor, Md. — Radiology departments shouldn’t be alone in harnessing the power of PACS. Visible light imaging can help unlock the value of PACS and distribute it universally throughout an entire enterprise.

“Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise” was the theme of the 2015 SIIM annual meeting, held May 28–30 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Because this ambitious endeavor entails providing EMR access to DICOM and non-DICOM images from every hospital department and satellite site in the healthcare enterprise, it was subject of a Town Hall meeting on the first day of the conference.

National Harbor, Md.— What do you want to know? What do you want to accomplish? What kind of data do you have and how can you use it to create and implement new strategies? These are the questions hospitals need to address before they can tap into the power of analytics, which has the potential to revolutionize every aspect of the business and practice of medicine.