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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
Understanding and improving the medical imaging enterprise is a challenge — one constrained by the complexities of managing siloed and disparate data environments. Enterprise IT solutions don’t always provide the self-service tools and actionable insights needed to...
Boost Revenue by Finding Missed Charges
Thousands of revenue dollars, if not hundreds of thousands, are lost every year due to missed charges. One significant reason is that many practices lack an adequate reconciliation process to ensure every exam is properly coded and billed. Relying solely on matching...
Thanks for a GREAT RSNA 2024!
Our attendance this year was our most successful. For the first time in our RSNA exhibition history, we doubled our booth size from a 10x10 to a 10x20. Our larger footprint on the show floor and the positive word-of-mouth regarding Foundations™ led to us having...
Staffing – Doing More with Less
At AHRA’s 2024 annual meeting, we had an opportunity to chat with several leaders about the challenges that they were facing. Quite unanimously and quickly (and without pause or deep thought), they all replied with a single word: staffing. “I can’t get enough good...
The Story of National Teleradiology Program and Foundations™
Initially, the management team at VHA’s National Teleradiology Program (NTP) relied on retrospective reports and spreadsheets for business planning. The absence of timely data negatively impacted stakeholder collaboration and limited their ability to meet committed...
The Business Operations Gap – Insights from RBMA 2024 PaRADigm
Health information systems (such as RIS, EHR & EMR systems) are considered by many to be pillars of modern healthcare institutions. However, at RBMA 2024 PaRADigm, we met a number of radiology leaders who discovered another important pillar: the business...
Moving From Data Capture to Actionable Insights
With so many technology systems in use — and many disconnected from one another — finding meaningful relationships between clinical, financial, and operational data can be a challenge. Understanding the behaviors of each is important because of their interdependence;...
Staff Retention, Technology, and Balance
We had very insightful conversations during the 2024 ACR-RBMA Practice Leadership Forum, held in Phoenix, AZ, from January 19-21, 2024; this was our first year in attendance. Leaders shared their views on technology adoption, operational efficiency, and how these two...
How Strong Customer Relationships Led to the Rise of a Powerful Radiology Platform
Parag Paranjpe, founder and CEO of HealthLevel, shares how insights from strong customer relationships became the basis for solving the inefficiencies of radiology operations. My journey in healthcare started in 2002 when I joined a medical imaging company. It had...
Realizing the Benefits of Self-Service Analytics
Radiology businesses are continuously working toward reinforcing their value while dealing with an evolving landscape. Factors include changing reimbursement plans, the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the prevalence of Clinical Decision...