Radisphere

02/07/2014

The Emergency Department is a Big Contributor to Overutilization: CT Ordering Rates Vary by More Than 100%
As the second in a series of graphical stories that highlight imaging’s role in overutilization, our latest infographic focuses on the impact of variation in CT utilization across emergency medicine clinicians.
The graphic illustrates more than 100 percent variation in CT utilization in 58 hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the United States over the last two years. CTs accounted for 19 percent - 40 percent of all imaging ordered at the facilities we observed, with a median of 28.5 percent. Our analysis indicates that clinician behavior is a significant contributor to this variation. A view into one hospital’s ED shows the highest physician utilizers order CTs at four times the rate of the lowest utilizers.

Download the infographic in PDF format.

01/29/2014

Radisphere is launching an independent software company to empower radiologists and providers to manage the shift to value-based care. bit.ly/1iaV4AO

New Entity Combines Cloud Technology, Care Management Services, and 12 Years Expertise Delivering Standards-Based Radiology. Radisphere, a leading national

01/15/2014

Emergency Department is a big contributor to overutilization: 8% of isn’t even reviewed by physicians before patients sent home. http://bit.ly/1d5MoJV

Our latest infographic provides one perspective into how imaging performed in the Emergency Department plays a big role in our country’s massive o

12/17/2013

Bill establishes imaging appropriateness requirements to curb overutilization. http://bit.ly/Jx9VJ7

If H.R. 3705 passes, it will have a major impact on both imaging providers and referring physicians. In order to get reimbursed for imaging services, the bill

12/09/2013

Leading VC Annie Lamont says that better coordination of care comes from better information and sharing. http://bit.ly/18OWK29

Annie Lamont, managing partner at Oak Investment Partners and a member of HCA and Radisphere board of directors, recently sat down with NPR host Scott Simon to

12/02/2013

Over 80% of our radiologists agree that our proprietary structured checklist reporting improve their reports. http://bit.ly/1bbtlN5

CHICAGO — Structured reporting systems offer standardized ways to compile information from studies, but some worry they sanitize reporting too much.

11/11/2013

Our latest infographic illustrates how better radiology in the Emergency Department can reduce patient length of stay by as much as 10%. http://bit.ly/1eE27m8

Our latest infographic illustrates how better radiology in the Emergency Department (ED) can reduce patient length of stay (LOS) by as much as 10 percent. The

11/05/2013

View our latest performance scorecard. http://bit.ly/1a5Yi4O

11/04/2013

Celebrating and thanking all of our partner Radiologic Technologists. We appreciate all that you do.

11/01/2013

Radiology Performance Standards: Why They're Essential to Improving Health Care http://bit.ly/Ht9dvG

The following is a guest post to the Innovation Blog by Kedar Mate, Vice President of Innovation (IHI); Michele Leoni, Director, Marketing and Business Development (Radisphere); and Hank Schlissberg, Chief Growth Officer (Radisphere) These days, radiology represents nearly 8% or $200 billion of US s...

10/31/2013

Radisphere's Dr. Thomas Hudson, Director of Women's Imaging at NCH Outpatient Centers, discusses breast imaging and early detection. http://bit.ly/16p8IMm

We recently sat down with Radisphere’s Thomas Hudson, M.D., Director of Women’s Imaging at the NCH Outpatient Centers, to discuss Breast Imaging and the imp

10/23/2013

Radisphere Vice Chairman of Radiology, Dr. Tommy Pope, discusses the Breast Imaging specialty and importance of early detection. bit.ly/17ccxoO

Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, we recently sat down with our Vice Chairman of Radiology, Thomas Pope, M.D., to discuss the importance of