A focus on the patient experience can improve care, revenue and more. Imaging professionals share examples of how this approach has worked for them and their facilities.
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The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on health care includes image-guided surgical procedures and trends involving ambulatory surgery centers and office-based laboratories.
Insiders examine what the outcome of the 2020 elections could mean for the national medical imaging community.
While the global scientific community worked as one to solve a huge, new problem in real-time, their efforts and discoveries were also frequently undermined by an equally virulent “infodemic.”
At a time when patients’ entire medical histories can be synchronized with high-resolution pictures of their physical tissue itself, imaging has emerged as “a critical partner in clinical care for just about any other specialty, with very few exceptions,” said Dr. Christopher Wald.
At Banner Imaging and Telehealth of Phoenix, Arizona, Diagnostic Imaging Support Services Director Sherman Abernathy oversees a multi-modality array of medical imaging systems across dozens of sites in six states, as well as a staff of technicians and engineers who maintain them.
From March to June, health care facilities across the United States were shuttered to all non-essential procedures by state order, as the country worked, with mixed results, to respond to the rapidly spreading virus.
Capital equipment purchases can be among the most technically complicated business decisions that any health care organization makes. As economic conditions become increasingly volatile amid the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic…
– By Matt Skoufalos – For Verlon E. Salley, medical imaging is essentially the family business. His father was a radiologic technologist…
– By Matt Skoufalos – Like many other health care specialties, credentialing in the medical imaging field is an indication of technical…
