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Imaging Center Institute

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

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Healthcare Headlines

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


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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.

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Leveraging 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.

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High 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

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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.

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Radiology 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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Leadership

Scanning Imaging’s Deals

With no stimulus package in the wings, the future belongs to those leaders in radiology who dare to innovate

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Restructuring: The Way JVs Get Done

After Congress passed the DRA, reducing Medicare reimbursements for imaging services, the radiology landscape has never been the same.

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The 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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Imaging Informatics

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

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Leveraging 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.

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Catching 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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Radiology Service Lines

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.

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Automating 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

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Keeping 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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Macroeconomics

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.

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Preparing 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.

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Too 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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