We provide strategic business and marketing expertise to assist in the growth of your medical imaging enterprise. Our clients include radiology practices, imaging centers, and hospitals in large and small markets across the country.
On-site and off-site services include:
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational Analysis
- Governance Review
- Referral Source Growth Strategies
- Business Development
- Physician Partner Alignment
- Operations Management
- Customer Service Training
- Marketing and Advertising Support
- • Brand development
- • Web sites
- • Marketing plans
- • Advertising strategies
- • Collateral development
03.11.10
Study Finds Low Yield for Diagnostic Coronary Angiography
Source: The Wall Street Journal
03.01.10
ACR Launches Online Nuclear Medicine and PET Accreditation
Source: ACR
03.01.10
CMS Gives Congress, Physicians a Temporary Reprieve on Pay Cut
Source: AMA News
02.28.10
Carotid Stents Comparable to Surgery Gold Standard: CREST Trial
Source: Wall Street Journal
02.25.10
Whistleblowers Charge Medtronic with Off-label Marketing
Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
02.25.10
Health Care Summit: Play by Play
Source: Health Affairs Blog
02.17.10
Workgroup Urges Flexibility in Meaningful Use Requirements
Source: ONC HIT Web site
New Templates for Recession-resistant Marketing
Marketing radiology services can represent a significant challenge, particularly in an increasingly consumer-driven medical marketplace, where outreach to patients requires reconfiguring a familiar line of messaging.
Click here for moreLeveraging IT for Better Service
Don Trexler, CEO of Baton Rouge Radiology Group (BRRG) in Louisiana, wants his practice to be different from a typical imaging group.
Click here for moreHigh Hurdles for HITECH Dollars
The indefinite path to qualifying for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act funds just came into greater focus, but it’s not to everyone’s liking.
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Building Bridges
A strong physician referral base requires meticulous planning and follow-through
Click here for moreNew Templates for Recession-resistant Marketing
Marketing radiology services can represent a significant challenge, particularly in an increasingly consumer-driven medical marketplace, where outreach to patients requires reconfiguring a familiar line of messaging.
Click here for moreRadiology Assistants: A User’s Guide
From May 2007 to January 2008, an Atlanta, Georgia-based radiologist signed and submitted thousands of reports in his name, with one major caveat—he didn’t review a single one.
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Scanning Imaging’s Deals
With no stimulus package in the wings, the future belongs to those leaders in radiology who dare to innovate
Click here for moreRestructuring: The Way JVs Get Done
After Congress passed the DRA, reducing Medicare reimbursements for imaging services, the radiology landscape has never been the same.
Click here for moreThe Quest for Quality in Radiology
With Quality Counts as its theme for 2009, the RSNA’s 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, obviously emphasized multiple aspects of quality assurance, control, and improvement.
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At the Intersection of Radiology and the EHR
A tight interface between electronic patient records and PACS does more than further the ARRA objective of improving the quality of health care; it also has significant medicolegal and economic implications
Click here for moreLeveraging IT for Better Service
Don Trexler, CEO of Baton Rouge Radiology Group (BRRG) in Louisiana, wants his practice to be different from a typical imaging group.
Click here for moreCatching Up With the Future: The Radiology of Tomorrow
The future is here—it just hasn’t made it to radiology yet.
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JAMA Article Slams Mammography: At What Cost?
When JAMA published an opinion piece1 in October 2009 questioning the effectiveness of mammography screening and calling for new screening protocols to separate life-threatening cancers from less harmful lesions, the mammography community reacted with alarm.
Click here for moreAutomating Management of Critical Results
When Jane Wheatley, CEO of Taylor Regional Hospital, Campbellsville, Kentucky, needed to make a decision regarding her facility’s handling of radiology services
Click here for moreKeeping Country Radiology Cool
A rising tide lifts all boats, as the saying goes, and thanks to the hastening deployment of subspecialty teleradiology, some of the smallest imaging-department boats are riding high.
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Now, for Something Completely Different
As I sit here trying to think of a way to wrap up a year of tremendous change in radiology, health care, and the economy at large, I understand that there is no way to turn 2009 into a neat package.
Click here for morePreparing for Potential Reform: The Hospital View
Some proponents of national health care reform expect to pop the champagne corks any day now in celebration of getting a bill through Congress.
Click here for moreToo Big to Understand
I just finished reading the new book about last year’s financial near meltdown, Too Big to Fail (Viking, 2009), by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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New Model of Community Hospital Radiology Cost Reductions From an Unforeseen Source: Via Professional Fees
Franklin & Seidelmann
Imager Boosts Productivity While Cutting Costs
Codonics
Patient Flow and Access
GE Healthcare
The Vital Importance of RIS
Sectra
