Charting the Leadership Course: Tales From the High Seas

October 28, 2011 | Feature

What qualities make a radiology leader? What experiences best prepare leaders to assume their roles? How do leaders know whether they are performing to the best of their abilities? These were among the questions that Radiology Business Journal recently asked four undisputed industry leaders: a radiology-department chair, a practice... Read More »

Succession Planning for Health-care Organizations

July 14, 2010 | Imaging Futures

According to a 2004 study by the American College of Healthcare Executives, only 21% of 722 hospitals routinely engaged in leadership-succession planning, compared with two out of three for-profit companies in other industries. Will Powley, senior consulting manager for ... Read More »

The Tortoise and the Stack Burner

April 29, 2010 | Final Read

You know the tale. In the end, the steady pace of the tortoise won out over the supreme confidence and sheer speed of the hare; the hare simply did not value the focus, commitment, skill set, and tenacity exhibited by the tortoise. There are lots of lessons to be... Read More »

Good Governance

December 01, 2009 | Feature

Imaging providers are well aware of the many challenges that radiology groups are facing today. Considering all of the various external threats, one is reminded of the motto sometimes attributed to Blackbeard (Edward Teach, 1680–1718): The floggings will continue until morale improves. It is in this environment that many radiology... Read More »

Whom Do You Trust?

August 17, 2009 | The Big Picture

There is perhaps no greater indicator of an organization’s cultural health than the degree to which members of the group—really, a community—trust one another. It is the case in large as well as small groups. Indeed, with individual relationships between two people, if there is no... Read More »

Leading Large in Michigan

July 01, 2009 | Governance

As practices merge to gain leverage and broad subspecialty expertise, they also encounter commensurate new leadership challenges in governing ever-larger groups of independent-minded members. Consider, then, the challenges inherent in leading one of the nation’s largest radiology private practices, Advanced Radiology Services (ARS), in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It... Read More »

Leadership in Radiology

May 15, 2009 | Radiology Business Journal

What’s expected of leaders in radiology has changed, Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA, informed his audience at the 23rd Annual Economics of Diagnostic Imaging 2008: National Symposium on October 24, 2008, in Arlington, Va. Lexa is clinical professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, and adjunct professor... Read More »

Building the Model Practice

December 01, 2008 | Feature

Corporate-style governance, subspecialization, and choosing the right administrative staff members all play roles

What does the ideal radiology practice look like?

It is likely to include subspecialization, according to Lawrence R. Muroff, MD, FACR, president and CEO of Imaging Consultants Inc in Tampa, Fla. He... Read More »

Sandy Benson, CEO, Seattle Radiologists, PC: Keeping the Hierarchy Low

July 15, 2008 | CXO Files

You could say that Sandy Benson grew up at Seattle Radiologists. If you said that Seattle Radiologists grew up with Benson, you also would be correct. A former radiologic technologist with interventional-radiology experience, she joined the practice in 1983 to open an outpatient interventional lab and, 25 years later, continues to... Read More »

Ten Reasons Plans Fail

June 15, 2008 | Governance

So many strategic plans end up collecting dust because group practices are not properly primed to act, Richard Townley, MBA, president and CEO of AGI Healthcare Group, San Ramon, Calif, believes. He shared his philosophy at the RBMA-sponsored Managing a Radiology Business from the Top: Physicians & Administrators meeting... Read More »