The current Guinness World Record holder for the tallest man, Sultan Kosen, won't be posting new records for height anymore, but that's just fine with him. Kosen appears to have stopped growing following radiation therapy treatment at the University of Virginia Medical Center, earning the medical center a mention in the 2012 Guinness World Records.

Like Californians waiting for the next earthquake, we all know that healthcare reform is coming. Similarly, we do not know exactly when it will arrive, what kind of damage it will cause, how it will affect us in our immediate surroundings or what we can do, specifically, to prepare for its arrival. All we can tell for now is that it will impact us financially with a decrease in Medicare reimbursements — and we can safely assume similar effects with insurance reimbursements.

The term “cloud computing” has been around for almost 10 years, but it only entered the healthcare vocabulary a few years ago. Today, many healthcare providers are confused about what cloud computing is and especially about how it is being used within healthcare and its potential applications for the future.

The majority of radiology information system (RIS) installations today are replacement systems. As the sun was setting on our RIS at Westchester Medical Center (WCMC) in 2009, we embarked on our search with a host of different requirements than we had when we implemented our first RIS in 1995. Not only did the technology change, but so, too, did the needs of our department.

In imaging departments around the world, MR systems are stronger and faster, with greater image resolution than those of just a few years ago. And yet, all of this whiz-bang technology has yet to make a significant dent in the burning need of imaging providers — to reduce patient scheduling windows.