The picture is the view out of my window at Clario.   For those of you who do not know what these are, they are the “Amazon Spheres”. Being this close to Amazon HQ has its perks, like lots of food trucks, free bananas (they give them out to everyone walking by), and 2 hour […]

“Artificial intelligence will not replace radiologists. Yet, those radiologists who use AI will replace the ones who don’t.” – Curt Langlotz, MD Machine Learning (ML) is about to change Radiology workflow. By simply escalating exams that might have critical findings, the TAT for positive cases will significantly drop. Longer term, more advanced ML systems will be able […]

“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” – […]

Clario exhibited at RBMA 2017, and unlike past years, exhibitors were able to join sessions. Here are a few takeaways from the sessions and overall RBMA 2017 experience.

We have been seeing a lot of excitement around “Radiology in the Cloud“, and “Best of Breed” lately (I guess “Deconstructed PACS” is not hot any more), but none of these terms completely capture the real trend we are seeing.  What radiology groups want is a componentized single tenant (https://axerosolutions.com/blogs/timeisenhauer/pulse/146/single-tenant-vs-multi-tenant-business-software) client server application.  A key […]

Here are a just a few examples of the smart things your worklist should do: Send a reminder to do your peer reviews when the system realizes it is a slow day Automatically give you work unit or RVU credit for performing approved non-reading tasks Texts the on-call radiologist when the practice gets busy Assigns […]

When something goes from a trend to the new “normal” that is when you know a real shift has been made, and there has been a real shift in radiology. Back in 2013, The Radiology Business Journal published their yearly 100 largest practices list and stated, “The consolidation trend gathered steam in the radiology private practice sector in 2013.”

A “Unicorn” is a privately held company (technically a software company or a technology company) with a post-money valuation of $1 billion or more (https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/). “Post money valuation” means they were able to raise capital and value the company at close to $1B, and that value combined with the cash they received exceeded $1B. The […]

Of course, I am referring to Other People’s PACS. There are many reasons radiology practices decide to purchase a unified worklist, but the ability to use their customer’s PACS is often mentioned as one of the primary reasons. Even if your practice owns a PACS, using your customer’s PACS to read their exams can save you significant cash and allow you to read exams much faster when you are on site.

One of the worst (if not the worst) workflow issue we come across is switching between reporting systems. In some cases, it is impractical or impossible to switch when reading. The result is completely siloed practices and bad workflow. This problem is caused by running the VR application on the client computer.

Today it seems like all industries are being disrupted by technology, from taxi cab to pizza. Whether you are part of a small or large business, if you lack savvy technology skills you are not safe. Are you wondering if radiology will get hit with a technology disruption? Guess what, it is already happening.

A truly smart worklist will change your workflow depending upon the shift you are working.

A disruption displaces an existing market, industry, or technology and produces something new and more efficient and worthwhile. It is at once destructive and creative, and it does not always happen frequently.

Clario is actively building FHIR interfaces today, and I am blown away by the functionality that FHIR will bring to Radiology. Yes, it will take some time to get the EHR vendors to fully support FHIR, but even a moderate amount of support will result in a huge improvement for Radiologists.

Start by Looking at the Company That Built it Just a few years ago, reimbursement was high and the biggest workflow efficiency concerns centered around finding a viewer that could handle rapidly growing study sizes. Times have changed. To build the super efficient workflow orchestration needed in Radiology today, the worklist/workflow provider is at least […]

As reported by the Pew Research Center, one in five adults between 18 and 29 have severed the ties they once had with cable or satellite. This, by itself, is not shocking.  We all know young people are more likely to stream content, but the rest of the story should be of major concern to […]

Get the high priority exams covered. Whether you assign dedicated STAT readers or make STAT exams top priority for every shift, make sure all radiologists aware when they need to help out with STAT exams. Create auto-alerts when the STAT list gets long or create a worklist with STAT exams that have less than 10 minutes until SLA expires on top of almost every reader’s worklist.

Clario’s CEO, Chris Wood, talks about what it means to break down a PACS, and why you should build up a deconstructed PACS. Deconstructed PACS is a topic receiving a lot of press lately. This new system architecture allows practices to design and build best of breed solutions with components such as a vendor neutral […]

After years working in the restaurant industry, one of the main things I will never forget, and have taken with me on my career path, is understanding how important it is to be available to, and support your customers.