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) d…

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 these…

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 facil…

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, howeve…

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 existen…

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 has…