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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
“The future’s not ours to see ...” Lyric from the song “Que Sera, Sera”
Given the growing emphasis on patient and physician satisfaction,...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
It is not that smart algorithms will one day become too smart, as some fear; not that smart machines will one day overshadow human intellect. Rather...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
The electronic transmission of patient images, when done cost effectively, efficiently and instantaneously, can help expand services of the provider...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
Now that another year has come to a close, the ITN team is moving forward into the New Year and new decade with some exciting changes.
The first...
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Greg Freiherr
Approaches to gain widespread use of electronic transmission of patient images may be as varied as the needs and circumstances surrounding...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Talking about the benefits of quick, reliable image sharing among hospitals was how Duke University Health System grew its network of hospitals...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
After languishing for years, enterprise imaging appears ready to enter the mainstream of health care. At least a small part of that may involve the...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
On a monitor in the downtown Chicago engineering laboratories of GE Healthcare, a faux worklist appears on screen. From a list of patient exams that...
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Radiologists are being asked to make simple what is increasingly complex — and to do so quickly, efficiently and at less cost. All the while, the...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Pressed to do more, some radiologists are burning out. And the problem may be getting worse.
In 2011, about half of radiologists reported being...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Through its structure and scalability, the cloud makes data usable, even when there are volumes of it. A modern form of artificial intelligence (AI...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Embedded in the many data sets that comprise it, Big Data may provide an understanding of how health care can be improved. But because its volumes of...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
What’s going on with MRI? Once the darling of medical imaging, MRI had fallen on hard times. But those times didn’t last.
After years of growing...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
See Possibilities Together is the theme for the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 105th meeting and scientific assembly, and this year...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Ubiquity is a great advantage of the cloud. Its pervasiveness allows data access from anywhere on the network. But just having the data available is...
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Eventually the future moves into the past, and we move on. But some of us wax nostalgic. Soft-copy reading deserves a bit of that.
For those who don’...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
When it comes to listing needs, patient safety ranks at the top. Just ask an imaging administrator.
“There is no way we can provide good quality...
Melinda Taschetta-Millane, Editorial Director
Breast cancer has affected our patients, our mothers, our sisters, our colleagues, our friends … and ourselves. In this issue, we help support the...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
If applied well, the cloud can boost efficiency, cost savings, healthcare delivery, even security. So compelling are its advantages that the cloud is...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
People who live in rural America may deserve the same quality healthcare as anyone living in the U.S., but it is not always immediately available.
At...