Your source for monographs, key documents, and white papers relevant to the imaging market.
Markle Foundation: A Framework for Meaningful Use and Certified or Qualified EHR
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CHIME Statement on Meaningful Use of Health IT
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AHIMA Statement on Meaningful Use Within Provisions of ARRA
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Wall Street Journal Lessons in Leadership
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NCRP Radiation Dose Report
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Health Spending Projections Through 2018: Recession Effects Add Uncertainty
to the Outlook
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National Spending By Medical Condition, 1996-2005
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ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards
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Strategies for Reducing Bad Debt
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Accounting for the Cost of US Health Care: A New Look at Why Americans Spend
More
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Are You Optimizing Your Contract Performance Data?
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A Framework to Guide Health Care Reform
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Ask radiology benefit management (RBM) companies who benefits from their work, and they will claim that everybody does: health plans and insurers, because RBMs save them millions of dollars in unnecessary imaging fees; referring physicians, because RBMs teach them the appropriate studies to order; and patients, because RBMs save them from needless exams and, just as important, unnecessary radiation exposure
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Penny Olivi, MBA, CRA, FAHRA, RT, answers questions exploring the state of the profession and the challenges of operating in a down economy
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Be aware of clinical, customer-service, and medicolegal issues in devising an image-storage solution for MDCT studies—and know that the interpretation tools are in transition
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Health systems are forging ahead with strategies to deploy outpatient imaging centers despite economic ills
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Hurried along by economic hard times, consumerism is making an impact on diagnostic imaging choices, and savvy practices are responding
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Do you remember medical imaging before PACS? There were images stored in different ways, in different places, at different times; images were lost, and images sat in stacks, waiting to be filed. Hours were spent retrieving them or searching in vain. It was frustrating and inefficient.
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Since the third week of May 2009, a radiology forum at AuntMinnie.com has been on fire. At issue is the takeover of radiology services at a network of Toledo, Ohio, hospitals by Imaging Advantage LLC, Algonquin, Illinois, which calls itself “a nationally recognized radiology management company ”¹ in a press release.
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Two studies¹,² published in May 2009 in Health Affairs have drawn attention to the administrative costs that physicians endure in dealing with health plans. One study estimated the cost, to US physicians, of handling authorizations, prescriptions, and other patient-care issues with health insurers to be up to $31 billion, an amount that researchers called equal to nearly 7% of all expenditures for physician/clinical services nationally.
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The cost of health IT ownership is projected to be nearly twice what hospitals and independent health clinics spend on IT technology and software in 2009, according to Mike Davis, vice president, HIMSS Analytics™, Chicago, Illinois. He shared trends from a database that includes 32,000 health care providers in the United States and Canada during a Webcast on June 16, 2009.
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As little as one extra MRI per day can generate more than an additional $200,000 in incremental revenue annually, but most imaging centers use crude scheduling systems that do not accurately present a center’s potential throughput.
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In a span of one month in late 2008, the following four incidents were reported. In one case, a practice representative on the East Coast was making the rounds to shore up CT referrals. She reported that the referrals from one office had dropped dramatically because the referrer’s faxes would not go through.
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The importance of IT already has been established; it is key to the success of an imaging practice. Organizations with this vision have made major investments in the right kind of IT management and in the infrastructure required to run an efficient practice.
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As practices merge to gain leverage and broad subspecialty expertise, they also encounter commensurate new leadership challenges in governing ever-larger groups of independent-minded members.
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An amazing thing happened in the month of June 2009. The father of modern teleradiology resigned from the company that has become synonymous with teleradiology, NightHawk Radiology. We all know him: Paul Berger, MD.
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Let’s get the full disclosure part out of the way right up front. I am a capitalist: an Adam Smith, free-market, supply-side, trickle-down-economics entrepreneur who believes that individuals have a right to build wealth for themselves without anyone being able to play Robin Hood with their money, freely redistributing to others what they honestly earned the hard way.
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