Are radiologists prepared for the future?
Read along as Alex Logsdon, MD spins a tale of the future landscape of diagnostic imaging… Click HERE for the story.
When to hire an outside radiology consultant…
You Need to Pinpoint Specific Areas for Improvement As many healthcare leaders have discovered, running a medical practice is far different from running a hospital or health system. But even when you know something isn’t working right, it’s often difficult to identify exactly what the problem is—or how to fix it. The best healthcare consulting […]
Quality improvement methods matter…
“Use of iterative cycles to refine interventions reflects engagement of the most basic proven quality improvement (QI) methodology. However, a new systematic review has found that fewer than half (46 percent) of published imaging QI projects used repeated test of change to refine an intervention.” What is an iterative cycle? Why does it matter? Read […]
How China leveraged IT infrastructure to battle the Coronavirus
Information technologies have played a pivotal role in China’s response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, such as proactive surveillance for rapid detection and diagnosis of infection, immediate isolation, rigorous contact tracing, quarantine of the close contacts, and exceptionally high awareness and acceptance of the measures among general public. Read the entire article HERE
Technology can improve efficiency of follow up recommendations…
Tessa S. Cook, MD, PhD says “In my early faculty years, my department started thinking about doing a better job at making sure that patients with possible cancers didn’t fall through the cracks after undergoing imaging.” This Radiology Today article touches on multiple methods to improve patient care around these challenges.
AMA quick guide to telemedicine in practice
The use of telemedicine and remote care services are critical to the safe management of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also ensuring uninterrupted care for 100 million Americans with chronic conditions. Telemedicine spans a continuum of technologies that offer new ways to deliver care including: – Real-time, audio-video communication tools (telehealth) that connect physicians and patients […]
