Voices of Experience · Webinar
Episode 6May 2024

IT Survival Guide: Technological Innovations in Radiology

Every rad group now wants to read on its own platform. The hard part was never the software.

Hosted by Dianne Keen  ·  with Luke Plese and Reed Smoller
Guests
Luke Plese
Luke Plese
Vice President, Internal Market Development at Radiology Partners
Reed Smoller
Reed Smoller
Director of IT at Bay Medical Management
The takeaway

The software was never the bottleneck. Ninety days of interface work and one question nobody asked are what move a go-live date.

90-120 days
Best case to stand up one interface
180 days
If everyone gets their say
70-80%
Of studies now read on the group's own equipment
22 years
With the same organization, through all of it
The recap

What it takes to move radiology onto your own platform

In this Voices of Experience webinar, Dianne Keen is joined by Luke Plese, Vice President of Internal Market Development at Radiology Partners, and Reed Smoller, Director of IT at Bay Medical Management, the MSO for a large radiology group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Between them they have watched radiology IT move out of the hospital reading room to wherever the radiologist happens to be sitting.

The conversation is practical rather than visionary. They cover why practices now insist on reading on their own platform, how long an interface really takes and what to put in the contract because of it, what a good project manager contributes when they are not an IT specialist, and why adoption rather than the technology decides whether any of it works.

In this episode

Four things worth your time

Off the Hospital's System and Onto Your Own: Why groups moved from reading on hospital-owned equipment to a consolidated environment of their own, and what a stretched radiologist market has to do with the decision.
An Interface Takes Longer Than You Budgeted: Ninety to a hundred and twenty days at best, closer to a hundred and eighty once everyone has had their say, which is an argument for writing it into the contract rather than into the plan.
The Project Manager Need Not Be an Engineer: What a good one actually contributes, why the useful skill is asking the question nobody thought to ask, and how resourcing gets missed when nobody does.
Adoption Is the Hurdle, Not the Tool: Why radiologists want to see the data before they trust something new, and why a shortage of both radiologists and support staff makes the change unavoidable regardless.

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