February 6, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
Understanding VNA objectives aids in knowing how to apply industry standards
February 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Managing the flow of and access to diagnostic images and diagnostic imaging reports can become almost infinitely complex in some organizations. One multispecialty physician group in New York City, Manhattan's Physician Group, has leveraged IT to master its imaging informatics processes.
December 29, 2011 Gabriel Perna
article
Because of competing priorities as well as cost, security and implementation concerns, cloud-based storage development has gotten off to a slow start in healthcare.
December 3, 2011 Joe Marion
blog
Another Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference has come and gone. So what did Santa bring the Radiology community this year? In one word, my answer is the “communalization” of imaging!
December 2, 2011 Mark Hagland
blog
Now that RSNA 2011 is over, it’s a good moment to take a pause and think through this year's RSNA experience.
December 1, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
blog
In a recent conversation with Mac McMillan at MGMA11, I got to quiz him on a wide variety of issues from the main security challenges for small practices to the big issues he has been wrestling with as chairman of the HIMSS Privacy and Security Policy Task Force.
November 30, 2011 Mark Hagland
blog
If anyone has a long view on the annual RSNA conference, it’s Joe Marion, the industry thought-leader and consultant who noted Wednesday afternoon that this year’s RSNA was his 35th.
November 23, 2011 Joe Marion
blog
I have recently been involved in several client situations involving enterprise imaging, and after listening to all the “hype” I almost feel like I’m on the game show, “Let’s Make a Deal.”
August 25, 2011 John DeGaspari
blog
I recently had an opportunity to speak with Charles E. Christian, CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital in Vicennes, Ind., regarding the steps his hospital is taking to prepare itself for natural disasters. Christian believes that old-fashioned brick-and-mortar infrastructure cannot be overlooked when planning for natural disasters.
August 16, 2011
blog
I know it’s an interesting time of year for sports, particularly if you are a Wisconsinite such as me! (Need I mention the Packers or the Brewers?) Fortunately, I am not talking sports. I am speaking to experience with PHI in the cloud. I recently blogged on Google’s decision to exit the personal health storage business (Google Rains on the Cloud, June 30, 2011), and suggested it would be a boon to others in the market, such as Microsoft’s HealthVault.
July 26, 2011 Mark Hagland
blog
I found an article in the July 13 Journal of the American Medical Association to be fascinating, as it validates what many experts have been saying for some time now, and that is that, when it comes to the large data and information superstructures that are being built now in healthcare, there is great potential going forward for improvements to patient safety and care quality that sometimes can’t be fully appreciated at the outset of their development.
