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
02.08.10
Obama Calls Bi-partisan Health Summit
Source: The Washington Post
02.05.10
Illinois Supreme Court Kills Medical Malpractice Law
Source: The Chicago Tribune
02.05.10
ASTRO Calls for Central Database to Report Linac Errors
Source: The New York Times
02.01.10
NIH to Track Patient Radiation Exposure
Source: USA Today
01.26.10
Radiation Therapy Overdoses Examined
Source: The New York Times
01.26.10
Continuum and UnitedHealthcare Locked in Battle Over Notification Penalty
Source: The New York Times
01.21.10
Brown to Massachusetts: Health Care Reform is a State Issue
Source: The Washington Post
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.
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 moreBuilding Bridges
A strong physician referral base requires meticulous planning and follow-through
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The Impact of 320 Detector Rows: Aquilion ONE in the Pediatric Setting
The 320-detector CT scanner, recently implemented at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, has minimized dose requirements, reduced the need for sedation, and opened the door for future research
Click here for moreDR Done the Right Way
If service, patient safety, and profit weren’t incentives enough, now hospitals and imaging clinics have another inducement to go digital: the Obama administration’s federal health care stimulus plan, which stresses health care IT and electronic medical records.
Click here for moreIterative Reconstruction: Ready for Its Close-up?
Enhanced image clarity, less noise, and half the radiation exposure for patients: sound good?
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The ACR and Its Real-world B-school
Radiology is stepping up to the very difficult challenges it faces with the help of an expanding cadre of strong leaders
Click here for moreA Time for Introspection
The question that I am most often asked is why I remain so confident and bullish about radiology’s future, given all of the bad news that continues to drain our collective will.
Click here for moreJeff Bauer, PhD, on Transforming Health Care
Health care futurist and consultant Jeff Bauer, PhD, coauthor of the book Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care: How Efficiency, Effectiveness, and E-Transformation Can Conquer Waste and Optimize Quality
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Improving the Hospital-practice IT Interface
A great place to begin improving the interoperability of health care informatics is where the radiology practice and the hospital intersect
Click here for moreSoftware Allows Virtual PET/MRI Fusion
It was a difficult, but not uncommon, neuroradiology case: A patient suffered seizures, but had, a year before, been cleared of the possibility of epilepsy by a radiologist looking at an MRI study of the patient’s brain.
Click here for moreState of the Technology: Geoffrey Rubin, MD, on 3D Visualization
As CT technology continues to advance and the number of slices in a given exam grows exponentially.
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The Reality of Digital Mammography: How Digital Are You?
Digital mammograms are now being delivered at more than 50% of the mammography sites in the nation.
Click here for moreF&S Chair Frank Seidelmann, D.O.: On the Radiologist of the Future
Frank Seidelmann, D.O., is cofounder and chair of Franklin and Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology, Beachwood, Ohio.
Click here for moreStandardizing Mammographic Workflow and Interpretation
The passage of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA) ushered in a new era in breast imaging.
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Alternative Imaging Business Structures and Arrangements: What’s Legal?
The changing regulatory landscape for imaging business structures has left considerable uncertainty about which arrangements are acceptable in the eyes of the law
Click here for moreGrassroots Coalition Puts Collaboration Above Competition
The rival groups had targeted the same pool of patients in their marketing efforts, positioning their respective imaging facilities, in one of the most competitive markets in the country, as the best that the Big Apple had to offer.
Click here for moreACR Economic Update: What to Expect From CMS in 2010
While health reform is still a legislative preoccupation, where regulatory agencies are concerned, the train has left the station, according to Maurine Spillman-Dennis, MPH, MBA. Spillman-Dennis is a senior director in the economics and health policy division of the ACR®, and she presented an economic update from the college at the RBMA Fall Educational Conference on October 12, 2009, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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