KNOWLEDGE CENTER
June 21st, 2019
What is quality in healthcare? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), quality is “the extent to which healthcare services provided to individuals and patient populations improve desired health outcomes. In order to achieve this, healthcare must be safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable and people-centered.”
February 15th, 2019
Healthcare spending in the United States totaled $74.6 billion in 1970. By 2000, expenditures reached nearly $1.4 trillion. And by 2017, health spending swelled to $3.5 trillion. One root cause of these ballooning costs? A recent Journal of the American Medical Association study points the finger at imaging.
May 14th, 2018
Accelerating the shift from volume to value with a virtual radiology archive
The future of medicine is all about putting the patient front and center in the clinical experience — and radiology is leading the way.
May 7th, 2018
“A year for resilience amid uncertainty.”[1]
December 27th, 2017
Inconsistency, a lack of specialization, poor communication and other telltale signs of an underperforming radiology department can affect an entire hospital. Perhaps most surprising is just how common these issues are. Roughly half of referring physicians say a lack of dialogue with radiologists results in “a barrier to providing the best care possible,” according to an American College of Radiology (ACR) survey.1