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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...
AI: Here, There, and Everywhere – Observations from RSNA 2023
Artificial intelligence dominated many of our conversations at RSNA’s 2023 annual meeting. A number of business leaders told us that, as workloads increased along with demands for faster turnarounds, they are looking into AI-based products to help resolve the burdens...
Appropriate Staffing and IT Burdens – Takeaways from AHRA 2023
This was our first year attending AHRA’s annual meeting. It was certainly a worthwhile experience, with all the new people that we met. A lot of familiar faces also came by our booth – mentioning that they recognized us from events hosted by RSNA, SIIM, and PaRADigm....