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Optimizing Interventional Radiology Efficiency

October 11, 2023
Introduction: Doing More with Less – this has become the new norm in today’s healthcare environment. Optimizing resources and streamlining operational processes is of utmost importance. From working long hours to adapting to unexpected schedule changes, providers in Interventional Radiology (IR)...

HI-IQ update

December 21, 2022
In today’s healthcare environment of ever-increasing complexity, improving operational performance can be challenging. Add in the recent complications stemming from staffing shortages and COVID-19 protocols, and the kickstarting of process improvement initiatives can become daunting. Despite thes...

Visualizing data with HI-IQ

December 21, 2021
Sometimes data provides answers and sometimes it creates questions—but neither are possible if you’re collecting data that you’re not analyzing. Consider, for example, Fig. 1. This visualization, generated using HI-IQ®, illustrates the anonymized data used with permission from an actual HI-IQ fac...

HI-IQ IR Quarterly Article Oct 2020

October 1, 2020
Illustration 1:  Service volume (blue line) is trended by month for one year.  Complicated Services/Services with Adverse Events are stacked by outcome over the same time period. © ConexSys, Inc. Sometimes data provides answers, sometimes it creates questions, howe...

Training the first generation of IRs in Nigeria

June 21, 2020
RAD-AID International, a registered 501c3 nonprofit, is supporting the growth of interventional radiology in Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with over 200 million people, but there are only a handful of practicing IRs in the country. There are no training programs in exist...

HI-IQ article for Fall 2019 issue of IR Quarterly

September 21, 2019
As hospitals and health systems consolidate, management of clinical departments often shifts to align with the structure of the new organization.  In many cases, this means that an IR division which once operated independently with little or no oversight at the hospital corporate level now h...